Saturday, November 21, 2009

How to Install Skype in Fedora 12

The new version of Fedora 12 is released. You can install famous communication software skype in fedora 12 using some simple steps.
  • Hardware requirements
  • 1 Ghz processor or faster.
  • 256 MB RAM.
  • 20 MB free disk space on your hard drive.
  • Microphone and speakers or headset.
  • Internet connection – broadband is best (GPRS is not supported for voice calls).
  • Video card driver with Xv support.
  • Software requirements
  • Qt 4.2.1+
  • D-Bus 1.0.0
  • libasound2 1.0.12
  • PulseAudio 0.9.10+ (optional)
  • PulseAudio 0.9.15+ (optional recommended)

Technical details
Version 2.1.0.47

Download Skype for fedora from here

Double Click and Install

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Doesnt work for 64 bit (eg most systems nowadays) so forget it.

Anonymous said...

try this, it worked for me

http://akdwivedi.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/skype-on-64bit-fedora-10/

Anonymous said...

Hello fellow!

This post is really usefull!

And, talking about the facilities of Linux System nowadays, it's really important too!

Many people who has afraid of migrate to linux, from some versions ago, can do it without fear.

And we must to thanks the linux's developers and community!

Awesome!

By the way, if you want, add on your Skype's list: cristianosmiranda

;-)
@alcarrolikis