udev
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at CLEMSON.EDU
Fri Aug 10 10:45:45 UTC 2007
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.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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