Skype 2 and F8

[M A Young]

On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Mike C wrote:

> If anyone is using Skype 2 in F8 be aware that the rpm method of installing
> Skype 2 will fail -
>
> See:
>
> [root at home1 skype-2.0.0.13]# rpm -ivh skype-2.0.0.13-fc5.i586.rpm
> warning: skype-2.0.0.13-fc5.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY,
> key ID d66b746e
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libQtCore.so.4 is needed by skype-2.0.0.13-fc5.i586
>         libQtDBus.so.4 is needed by skype-2.0.0.13-fc5.i586
>         libQtGui.so.4 is needed by skype-2.0.0.13-fc5.i586
>         libQtNetwork.so.4 is needed by skype-2.0.0.13-fc5.i586
>         qt4-x11 >= 4.2 is needed by skype-2.0.0.13-fc5.i586
>
> But - then:
> [root at home1 skype-2.0.0.13]# yum list available |grep libQt
> [root at home1 skype-2.0.0.13]#
>
> So none of these necessary dependency rpms is available in f8!

yum list available
is the wrong way to check this as it detects package names, not the
contents provide. What you should be running is
yum provides libQtCore.so.4
which will point you to the qt4 package. qt4-x11 is also available.

	Michael Young