Installing Skype on Fedora 16 64 bit | Installing Skype on Fedora 16 x86_64

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Here is the solution to make it work on Fedora 16 64 bit.

Download Skype from official website.

Switch to root user.

[geeksite@geeksite]$ su -
Password:

Enable sound using the i686 libraries.

[root@geeksite]# yum install libv4l.i686 pulseaudio-libs.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686

Install the following binaries too.

[root@geeksite]# yum install ld-linux.so.2 libasound.so.2 libXv.so.1 libXss.so.1 libQtDBus.so.4 libQtGui.so.4

Install Skype with this command.

[root@geeksite]# yum install skype-2.2.0.35-fedora.i586.rpm

That’s All! Now you can start to make the calls using Skype on Fedora 16 x86_64.

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