SKYPE FOR FEDORA 19/18/17/16/15/CENT OS/REDHAT 6.X

SKYPE FOR FEDORA 19/18/17/16/15/CENT OS/REDHAT 6.X in installation process.

Skype is medium that allows the people to communicate with each other by messaging or video calling. This Skype also provides services to phone calls on the telephone network. And the best feature any on Skype network can call for free of charge and there is no limit of call time. This Skype charge the people for calling to mobiles and landlines. So today we are going to install this best Skype on Fedora 19/18/17/16/15/Cent OS/RedHat 6.x.

To install Skype in Fedora open Terminal and enter following commands in Terminal:

su && yum -y install qtwebkit.i686 qt-mobility.i686 alsa-lib.i686 libXv.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 qt-x11.i686
wget http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-4.1.0.20-fedora.i586.rpm
rpm -ivh skype-4.1.0.20-fedora.i586.rpm

To install Skype in CentOS/RedHat open Terminal and enter following commands in Terminal:

su && yum install alsa-lib.i686 fontconfig.i686 freetype.i686 glib2.i686 libSM.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 libXi.i686 libXrandr.i686 libXrender.i686 libXv.i686 libstdc++.i686 pulseaudio-libs.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686 zlib.i686
wget http://download.skype.com/linux/skype_static-4.0.0.8.tar.bz2
mkdir /opt/skype
tar xvf skype_static* -C /opt/skype --strip-components=1
cd /usr/lib
ln -s libtiff.so.3 /usr/lib/libtiff.so.4
ln -s /opt/skype/skype.desktop /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop
ln -s /opt/skype/icons/SkypeBlue_48x48.png /usr/share/icons/skype.png
ln -s /opt/skype/icons/SkypeBlue_48x48.png /usr/share/pixmaps/skype.png
touch /usr/bin/skype
chmod 755 /usr/bin/skype

Now enter following command to open text file and copy the following code in text file:

nano /usr/bin/skype

 

#!/bin/sh
export SKYPE_HOME="/opt/skype"
$SKYPE_HOME/skype --resources=$SKYPE_HOME $*

Cheers!!!