What we’ve done here is ensure that skype will be able to communicate properly with the webcam by preloading the 32-bit library file before the execution of the next ELF binary. To do this, mimic what I’ve done ~]# mv /usr/bin/skype ~]# cat /usr/bin/skype Then, make sure the packages “libv4l-0.5.586”, “pulseaudio-libs-0.9.586”, and “alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.586” (or whatever versions you want) are ~]# yum -y install libv4l-0.5.586 pulseaudio-libs-0.9.586 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.586įirst thing’s first, we’ll need to make sure that this library will load properly when skype launches, otherwise there will be no video for skype to send to your chatting partners. Pull in the dependencies as well via yum. Your mileage may vary.įirst, go grab the RPM from the skype website and install it. For me, this happened to be on Fedora 11. Below we’ll embark on the quest of getting skype to behave properly on a 64-bit linux system. I’m going to assume, however, that these aren’t good options for you. You could do no video chatting, or you could also use another utility to chat, such as gnome-meeting. I wish that the skype protocol would be released as a public spec so open source versions could be made… unless one exists of which I’m unaware?Īnyway, this leaves us with a couple of options. To be honest, I don’t think I’ve seen a disparity this great in popular chat software since AOL Instant Messenger. The lack of support on skype’s part is almost appalling, given that they’re on version 4.1 for Windows and version 2.0 for Linux at the time of this article’s writing. Getting skype to work – and behave properly – on Fedora 11 is something of chore.

Yum install skype