Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Installing skype on fedora ... libQtCore.so.1 is needed by skype-2.0.0.72-fc5.i586

If you use fedora, and if you get errors as follows:
error: Failed dependencies:
libQtCore.so.1 is needed by skype-2.0.0.72-fc5.i586
libQtDBus.so.1 is needed by skype-2.0.0.72-fc5.i586
...
libXss.so.1 is needed by skype-2.0.0.72-fc5.i586
Don't worry you are not alone. And google may not seem to help much.

Well here is a solution I used ... execute the following as root:
# yum install qt-x11.i386
# yum install libXScrnSaver.i386
# yum install libXv.i386
# rpm -ivh skype-2.0.0.72-fc5.i586.rpm
And then skype should be installed. If you use gnome, there will be an icon at f applications->Internet->skype.

One reason why folks run into this issue is because they are running a 64 bit processor and installing skype which was compiled to be run on a 32 bit machine. So the files in the skype-2.0.0.72-fc5.i586.rpm are for a 32 bit operating system. The two yum commands above simply install the corresponding 32 bit libraries needed by skype to run on your 64 bit machine.

Hope that helps.
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6 comments:

  1. Threader SlashSaturday, February 28, 2009

    Hellow Vernon!

    Thanks man. The number of errors dropped from a half dozen to just one left:
    libXv.so.1 is needed by skype-2.0.0.72-fc5.i586

    Cheers.... ThreaderSlash - gmail.com

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  2. Vernon SingletonSaturday, February 28, 2009

    # rpm -qf /usr/lib/libXv.so.1
    libXv-1.0.3-5.fc9.i386

    So that means you may just need to install libXv-1.0.3-5.fc9.i386

    Hope that helps.

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  3. AbhiSaturday, May 09, 2009

    Thanks worked like charm!

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  4. VijayThursday, March 25, 2010

    Thanks a lot. This was very useful

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  5. AnonymousSaturday, August 28, 2010

    FEDORA 13 - 64 bit:

    Only the STATIC version can be installed.
    open two windows, run skype in one, and the second window needs to run "yum whatitprovides libwhatever.so.X"
    just install the library displayed as output of yum. repeat a dozen times, and done.

    So easy! Thanks skype for having a such archaic 32-bit application.

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  6. AnonymousMonday, January 10, 2011

    ANONYMOUS!

    You are the man, you solved my issue!

    FC11-x86_64

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