Skype on XO 1.5

[Paul Fox]

sameer wrote:
 > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
 > > sameer wrote:
 > >  > At the behest (more like pestering) of my mother, I installed Skype
 > >  > (Fedora 13+ version) on a XO 1.5 with build 874 and it all works. This
 > >  > is on the GNOME side. Both audio and video. I'm going to add a +1 in
 > >
 > > too late!  everyone's switched to google+.  ;-)
 > >
 > 
 > I'm the IT guy for my family and my wife's family. Don't get me started :-)
 > 
 > > 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.
 > 
 > Yes, the 2.2 beta
 > I did a "yum --nogpgcheck install skype-2.2.0.35-fedora.i586.rpm which
 > brought in the qt dependencies.

confirmed.  seems to work (the test call, at least) fine on 11.2.0.

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at laptop.org