udev

[Karl Larsen]

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.
>
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>   
    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 :-)



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