On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 1:55 PM, ken <gebser at mousecar.com>
wrote:>
> I easily installed and used skype on my previous linux distro on this
> same machine, but am having problems getting it to work on my relatively
> new centos 5.3.
>
> I downloaded three versions of skype from their website: the two fedora
> rpms wouldn't install, their error messages complaining that it needed
> another package, a package which was already installed. ?(I figured it
> had to be looking for that package in the wrong place... something I
> couldn't do anything about.)
>
> So I downloaded the suse 10+ rpm and it installed just fine. ?But when I
> ran it (/usr/bin/skype), it errored out also, saying
> "/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.9' not found
(required by
> /usr/bin/skype)". ?So I used yum to search for any glibc which
remotely
> corresponded to that glibc and got nothing.
>
> So is anybody running skype on 5.3? ?If so, how did you install it and
> get it to work?
>
>
> Thanks for the good tips.
>
>
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This one should work just fine:
http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-static