[SOLVED]Skype in Mageia 2

[SAlineBoy]

Hi
Running Kubuntu 12.10 on my other machine, Skype works perfectly, not so in on my new installation of Mageia 2.
Anyone any ideas?
Thanks in advance

[nik123]

Find in internet that package - skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586.rpm
It is build for fedora, but works also in mandriva and mageia.
Before installation:
urpmi libqtdbus4 /with all deps/
then rpm -ivh --nodeps skype-2.1.0.81-fc10.i586.rpm /--nodeps option is nessesary because that package does not recognize already instaled qt4-qtdbus libraries for mageia/
update-menus
then skype works.
I use it and haven't got any problems - voice and video chat also works.

[Latte]

If you have your 'nonfree' repos activated a simple

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# urpmi get-skype

should install you a working skype on your Mageia installation

[nik123]

Latte is right, but that version of skype, which has been installed by "urpmi get-skype" crashed on my computer after trying to run it, I do not know why. Perhabs my laptop is too old.

[Latte]

Perhabs my laptop is too old.

The sykpe version (skype-2.2.0.35.tar.bz2) which will be installed by 'get-skype' is not so much knewer than yours... And if you check the skype website the requirements for the latest version (skype-4.1.0.20) are:

1 GHz processor or faster.
256 MB RAM.
100 MB free disk space on your hard drive.

So I doubt that the crash is due to your old laptop - or is it soo old ?
Maybe you can start skype from the konsole and paste the error messages...

[nik123]

Sooo old- RAM 128 MB Meanwhile, I wrote my post as an alternative posibility, if the version of skype in mageia mirrors crashes.

[doktor5000]

Please post the output of

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urpmi get-skype

in a terminal as root

Apart from that, please look at the existing MAQeia for Skype: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1121