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
