Install Skype Fedora 11

Installing Skype on Fedora is a pain in the neck. And making the sound work on skype is a bigger pain! After migrating from Ubuntu to Fedora, things have become really difficult! In this post, I explain (thanks to mdim, a user on fedoraforum.org) how to install Skype on Fedora 11.

The first few steps are a copy paste of what mdim wrote on the forum:

Step 1:
Login as root in the terminal
Code:

su -

And provide your root password.

Step 2:
Download the libsigc++20-2.0.17-1.i386.rpm package:
Code:

wget http://fedora.osmirror.nl/extras/5/i386/libsigc++20-2.0.17-1.i386.rpm

Step 3:
Run the command:
Code:

rpm2cpio *.rpm | cpio -idmv

Step 4:
Create directory /opt/libs32/ if you don’t have it yet:
Code:

mkdir /opt/libs32

Step 5:
Copy libsigc-2.0.so.0 and libsigc-2.0.so.0.0.0 to /opt/libs32/ directory:
Code:

cp ./usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 /opt/libs32/cp ./usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0.0.0 /opt/libs32/

Step 6:
Install everything that has anything to do with Qt4:
Code:

yum install qt4*

Step 7:
Download the skype-1.4.0.118-fc5.i586.rpm rpm package from http://www.skype.com/intl/en/downloa…/linux/choose/and enter command in terminal:
Code:

rpm -i --force --nodeps skype-1.4.0.118-fc5.i586.rpm

Step 8:
Now give the path to those libraries:

Code:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/libs32/"

Step 9:
Now you can run skype by typing:
Code:

skype

IMPORTANT NOTE:
In some cases, there is this error which is encountered on the last step (Step 9).

warning: skype-2.0.0.72-fc5.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID d66b746e

And when Skype is executed, another error is encountered:

skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

For this, you would require the file libXss.so.1

Step 10:
Enter the following command in the terminal and then start skype.
Code:
yum install libXss.so.1

Thanx to mdim & http://xpl0it.wordpress.com/