On 05/08/15 08:06 PM, Andrew Daviel wrote:> > I have Skype 2.1.0 running on CentOS 5, but it does not support video. > > At various times I have tried to install or run more recent versions on > CentOS 5 and CentOS 6, but generally they fail for some reason, e.g. > library requirements. > > We would like to run Skype in some conference rooms, for business > reasons e.g. job interviews where some participants don't have access to > more "professional" solutions, and as I recall Microsoft shut down > gateways to H323. > > Does anyone have a good procedure for running Skype on CentOS ? > E.g. does it run natively on CentOS 7 ? > Or will it run with a custom LD_LIBRARY_PATH, as does Mozilla ? > Or will it run inside a virtual machine, or with Wine ? > > We have video capture cards using V4L2 that work with e.g. SeeVoghRN, > xawtv and, I think, Ekiga.If you're not stuck on CentOS 5... http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2012/install-skype-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel-scientific-linux-sl To the point, works. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education?
On 2015-08-06, Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca> wrote:> On 05/08/15 08:06 PM, Andrew Daviel wrote: >> >> I have Skype 2.1.0 running on CentOS 5, but it does not support >> video. >> >> At various times I have tried to install or run more recent versions >> on CentOS 5 and CentOS 6, but generally they fail for some reason, >> e.g. library requirements. >> >> We would like to run Skype in some conference rooms, for business >> reasons e.g. job interviews where some participants don't have access >> to more "professional" solutions, and as I recall Microsoft shut down >> gateways to H323. >> >> Does anyone have a good procedure for running Skype on CentOS ? E.g. >> does it run natively on CentOS 7 ? Or will it run with a custom >> LD_LIBRARY_PATH, as does Mozilla ? Or will it run inside a virtual >> machine, or with Wine ? >> >> We have video capture cards using V4L2 that work with e.g. SeeVoghRN, >> xawtv and, I think, Ekiga. > > If you're not stuck on CentOS 5... > > http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2012/install-skype-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel-scientific-linux-sl > > To the point, works. >That article seems unnecessarily complicated, at least as far as CentOS 6 and 7 are concerned. Skype is in the nux-dextop repository (which repository is mentioned in the article), so a simple 'yum install skype' will do the trick. -- Liam
On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Liam O'Toole wrote:> On 2015-08-06, Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca> > wrote: >> >> If you're not stuck on CentOS 5...It would be nice, as that's what we're still using in production.> That article seems unnecessarily complicated, at least as far as CentOS > 6 and 7 are concerned. Skype is in the nux-dextop repository (which > repository is mentioned in the article), so a simple 'yum install skype' > will do the trick.Thanks. I missed that - hadn't heard of nux-dextop - but I did find a specfile. Skype works, but not sending video. I see that the nux RPM installs libv4l.i686 which I was missing, but that didn't help. I've installed xawtv.i686 and removed xawtv.x86_64 so I can see that 32-bit video is working, but still not in Skype. It shows the graphic card, but doesn't actually send. If I plug in my infrared camera on USB, that works, but at TRIUMF I want to use the installed Sony PTZ cameras, not some cheap USB thing. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada