Skype on XO 1.5

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 1:50 PM,  <forster at ozonline.com.au> wrote:
>> but just to tag this thread with a version number, i'm guessing
>> you installed skype-2.2.0.35-fedora.i586.rpm ?  i'll give it a try.
>
> i think thats the file i tried today, it had a missing dependency, qt, on both 0.88 (373pyg) and 0.92 (870)
>
> so i tried http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Skype
> http://www.skype.com/intl/en/get-skype/on-your-computer/linux/downloading.static
> on 0.88 and it lagged so much it was unusable

You can get around this by doing "yum localinstall
skype-2.2.0.35-fedora.i586.rpm" and yum will check the rpm and pull in
any missing dependencies for you from the Fedora repositories.

Peter