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Install Skype 4.3 on Fedora 24/23, CentOS/RHEL/SL 7.2/6.8

17 Aug 2016

LINK: 原文章

This is guide, howto install Skype 4.3 on Fedora 24/23/22/21/20/19/18/17/16 on CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL)/Scientific Linux (SL) 7.2⁄6.8. This is actually easy process, but I won’t use Skype own RPM package, which works only with Fedora 16+. Skype package also doesn’t care about any needed dependencies on 64-bit (x86_64) systems nor 32-bit (i686) systems. This guide uses Skype dynamic package and all dependencies are installed manually.

1. Install Skype 4.3 on Fedora 24/23/22/21/20 and CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 7.2⁄6.8

1.1 Change root user

su -
## OR ##
sudo -i

1.2 Install needed repositories

Needed only on CentOS/RHEL/SL

## CentOS 7, Red Hat (RHEL) 7 and Scientific Linux 7 ##
yum localinstall http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-7.noarch.rpm
yum localinstall http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-5.el7.nux.noarch.rpm
 
 
## CentOS 6, Red Hat (RHEL) 6 and Scientific Linux 6 ##
yum localinstall http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

1.3 Install Needed Dependencies

## Fedora 24/23/22 ##
dnf 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 qtwebkit.i686
 
## Fedora 21/20/19/18/17/16 and CentOS/RHEL 7.2/6.8 ##
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 qtwebkit.i686

Same commands on multiple lines:

## Fedora 24/23/22 ##
dnf 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 qtwebkit.i686
 
## Fedora 21/20/19/18/17/16 and CentOS/RHEL 7.2/6.8 ##
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 qtwebkit.i686

Additional dependencies for CentOS 6 / Red Hat (RHEL) 6 / Scientific Linux (SL) 6

yum install libcanberra-gtk2.i686 gtk2-engines.i686 PackageKit-gtk-module.i686

1.4 Download Skype 4.3 Dynamic

cd /tmp
 
## Skype 4.3 Dynamic for Fedora/CentOS/RHEL/SL ##
wget --trust-server-names http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-dynamic

1.5 Extract Skype

mkdir /opt/skype
 
## Extract Skype 4.3 ##
tar xvf skype-4.3* -C /opt/skype --strip-components=1

1.6 Create Launcher

## Link skype.desktop ##
ln -s /opt/skype/skype.desktop /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop
 
## Link icons (copy and paste all rows at once) ##
## Thank you Andrej Podzimek for this code and idea ##
for icon in /opt/skype/icons/*; do
ressuffix="${icon##*_}"
res="${ressuffix%%.*}"
ln -s "$icon" /usr/share/icons/hicolor/"$res"/apps/skype.png
done
 
## Update gtk icon cache (needed at least Gnome/GTK envorinments) ##
gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/hicolor
 
## Create empty /usr/bin/skype file and set permissions ##
touch /usr/bin/skype
chmod 755 /usr/bin/skype

Open /usr/bin/skype with text editor and add following content: Fedora 24/23/22/21/20 / CentOS 7 / Red Hat (RHEL) 7 / Scientific Linux (SL) 7

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

CentOS 6 / Red Hat (RHEL) 6 / Scientific Linux (SL) 6

#!/bin/sh
export SKYPE_HOME="/opt/skype"
export GTK2_RC_FILES="/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
 
$SKYPE_HOME/skype --resources=$SKYPE_HOME $*

If you you have problems to use command line editors, like vi/vim, nano, emacs, pico, joe, etc. then copy and paste following lines (exactly) to terminal to create /usr/bin/skype file. Fedora 24/23/22/21/20 / CentOS 7 / Red Hat (RHEL) 7 / Scientific Linux (SL) 7

cat << EOF > /usr/bin/skype 
#!/bin/sh 
export SKYPE_HOME="/opt/skype" 
\$SKYPE_HOME/skype --resources=\$SKYPE_HOME \$*
EOF

CentOS 6 / Red Hat (RHEL) 6 / Scientific Linux (SL) 6

cat << EOF > /usr/bin/skype
#!/bin/sh
export SKYPE_HOME="/opt/skype"
export GTK2_RC_FILES="/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
 
\$SKYPE_HOME/skype --resources=\$SKYPE_HOME \$*
EOF