On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 16:31 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 22:30 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > > >> Rick Stevens wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Note that I have the 1.4.0.99-fc5.i586 version of Skype installed (yes, > >>> an i586 package on 64-bit machines running 64-bit Fedora). > >>> > >> Why on earth does skype update their rpm for an obsolete version of Fedora, > >> and then give this as the version for Fedora-7 ? > >> > > > > It's not in an F7 repository. Go to their site, right click on the > > link to the RPM and choose "Save link as..." and download it. Go to > > the directory where you downloaded it and do: > > > > $ sudo - rpm -ivh skype-1.4.0.99.fc5.i586.rpm > > > > Note that there are some dependencies that it may need that you don't > > have (the curse of not having it in a repo). If so, then "yum -y > > install whatever-it-needs" (Qt and a couple of others come to mind), > > then repeat the "rpm -ivh" bit. > > > > > > > Hi Rick well I did get the fc5 version from the Skype webpage and > since I had the earlier one running all the fc5 dependants were all > ready loaded so I just did the load rpm and it did and I turned it on > and it works fine. I think it will do fine so I am happy with a new > kernel, new udev and skype :-) Glad to hear it! See, it's not that hard to do, eh? ;-) Just takes a little bit of perseverance. You learned some stuff, how to get around some obstacles and now you can say, "I did it myself!" Welcome to nerdvana! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
