Re: udev

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On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 14:51 -0700, 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.

They do describe a yum repo file here: 
http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/repositories.html

It even upgraded my skype to skype-1.4.0.94-fc5, but interestingly
didn't (yet) update to 1.4.0.99-fc5.

-- 
                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs


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