Fedora :: Install Skype From Repository
Sep 5, 2009
Here is the new version that works with Fedora 13. It installs the latest Skype from the Skype repository (apparently the Skype repo was outdated in the past, but now it contains the same version as on the Skype website). First, create the skype.repo file in the zq3tf/etc/yum.repos.d directory:
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Third, one may have to install a few libraries that Skype needs. If you're interested, you can find out more about these libraries with ldd /usr/share/skype and with yum provides *..., but this is not required for installation. All you need to do is (got this from Krellan's post):
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May 25, 2011
I'm new to Linux. I've just installed Fedora and I'm wondering how to install Skype since it is not inside the repository. I use a 64bit system. I've seen that it is possible to download it from Skype home page. On some websites I've read to download the dynamic package, not the one for Linux, I did it, it is a compressed file, I've uncompressed it but now I don't know how to go on.
The readme file says to copy the bynary into usr/bin (is the binary the file called skype with no extension) and to install the folders avatars, icons... into usr/shared/skype. I've pasted the skype file into the usr/bin folder, but how do I install the folders, I've tried to copy them in the position, but it doesn't work? What about the files skype.conf and skype.desktop, what do I have to do with them? If this is not the correct way to install Skype, what should I do?
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Dec 15, 2010
I have downloaded & installed the skype beta release for linux (now ancient?) on my newly build fedora 14 (64) box.
Under fedora 12, I made this work after several hours of mucking around by installing old libraries for 32 bit code in /lib and /usr/lib - as I got an error, I found the library and put it in place. This was painful and the WRONG way to do things - I should have been using yum!
It remains a shame that the Skype release for Linux is so old, but that is life.
Can anyone list the libraries needed (prefer yum names if possible) to make this work?
I can do this again the hard way and list the results for others (should have saved for myself, but I never dreamed that a newer Skype release would take so long) , but I am sure many folks have this working already. I am surprised there is no "yum install skype---" command.
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Oct 23, 2010
I've read and execute the info write in this guide :
[URL]
When I type skype , I receive this message :
bash: skype: command not found.
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Dec 7, 2009
l would like to install skype (beta version) by yum, so that l can solve all dependencies. How can l do?
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Dec 23, 2009
How to install Skype on Fedora 12?
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Nov 16, 2010
I didn't find skype upon searching Add/Remove Software. Is there a Repositories that I'm missing here? I found this thread [URL] with instructions to run this command in a terminal.
su
yum -y install wget libX11.{i586,i686} libv4l.{i586,i686} alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.{i586,i686} qt-x11.{i586,i686} libXScrnSaver.{i586,i686}
wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-fc10
yum localinstall --nogpgcheck skype*
rm -rf skype*
which installed it/worked.
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Jun 10, 2011
what is repository's ? do we need to install repository each time we install any package ?or cant we just say yum install package name ? & how to install tar.gz files ?
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Mar 17, 2011
I have Fedora 13 in a VPS. I cannot work with yum. I got this error: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try # yum list Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. verify its path and try again.
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Dec 1, 2009
I have install fedora 12 (i686) from Live CD. Now i want to install some package. I typed comand like this:
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yum install some_package_name
But i have an error:
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Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. verify its path and try again i looked at /etc/yum.repos.d:
Quote:
[fedora]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
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Dec 15, 2009
[root@127 scott]# yum update Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit [URL]: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 7 - "" Trying other mirror. [URL]: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 7 - "" Trying other mirror. Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora.
verify its path and try again ...browsed through solutions like using yum clear and setting proxy in yum.conf
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Dec 22, 2009
Here's the details to this mornings update error:
Error Type: <class 'yum.Errors.RepoError'>
Error Value: Error getting repository data for installed, repository not found
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3125, in <module>
main()
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3122, in main
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It mentioned bug report but I don't know where that is. I'll try later.
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Feb 14, 2010
Today I installed Fedora12 from the DVD, so this is my first contact with all of you. The last years I ran very well with gentoo, but the time for system maintenance got to big the last few times I updated the system, so I decided to change and here am I. The Problem: My system is newly installed from the DVD and I was trying to run the first update, but got the following errormassage by KPackageKit:
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Error Type:
Error Value: Error getting repository data for installed, repository not found
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3125, in
main()
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3122, in main
backend.dispatcher(sys.argv[1:])
File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 710, in dispatcher
self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:])
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It occured after informing me about the amount of packages that need to be updated and a message about some dependencies that have to be newly installed. At the moment I'm a bit lost about what to do. Also I realy don't know which system-information would be useful - let me know and I will answer.
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Jun 14, 2010
When I try to install some programs, like Asunder, I get the following:
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[root@localhost theAdmiral]# yum install asunder
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://rpm.livna.org/mirrorlist error was
14: PYCURL ERROR 7 - ""
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: livna. Please verify its path and try again
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Jul 28, 2010
I installed Fedora 13 in my new system from DVD image. Now I want to update all repositories. I coul'nt update. error message as below: Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. verify its path and try again
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Aug 8, 2011
I cant get yum to work
every time I go to install something it gives this output code...
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Nov 14, 2009
I installed FC10, but do not find xfig (command not found)..then I do password:xxxxxxx, and then do the following $yum install xfig, and I get the following error Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit [URL].. [Errno 14] HTTP Error 401: Unauthorized Trying other mirror. Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: adobe-linux-i386.
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Dec 27, 2009
yum is completely broken. I cannot install or update any software. yum is always throwing:
Code: Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-fedora-12&arch=x86_64 error was 14: PYCURL ERROR 7 - "" Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rpmfusion-free. Please verify its path and try again I have tried globally to disable the gpg check as stated in other threads. I have no proxies or such in yum.conf or in my bashrc. If I manually click on the link it will resolve in firefox so I am sure it is not my net connection per se, it seems yum or curl is adding a : to the end of the url thats why it wont resolve properly.
I have done a yum clean all , which didnt really help either. reinstalling the rpmfusion repos isnt an option either as I start getting curl errors in the terminal. I am really at a loss here and am completely out of ideas as I cant install any updates or software , at first I thought the repositories were having problems with the holidays but this has been going on for 4 days now. /var/log/messages isnt showing anything either.
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Oct 5, 2009
How do you install skype on f11!
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Nov 24, 2009
I'm trying to install Skype in Fedora 12 KDE which I just installed recently. I tried downloading skype-2.1.0.47-fc10.i586.rpm and double-clicking on the .RPM and letting KPackageManager handle it but that returned and "unknown error". So I tried to follow the steps found here: [URL]. When I tried #yum install skype after running I got the following error message:
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Total download size: 14 M
Is this ok [y/N]: Y
Downloading Packages:
Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata
Processing delta metadata
Package(s) data still to download: 14 M
skype-2.0.0.72-fc.i586.rpm 14 MB 03:01
warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID d66b746e
GPG key retrieval failed: [Errno 14] Could not open/read file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-skype. I am fairly new to Fedora and haven't used KDE in a long time. I am fairly comfortable with the command line and have been using Linux for a few years I just haven't used Fedora for any length of time.
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Jan 8, 2010
Using Fedora 11
[root@writ skype]# uname -a
Linux writ 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Wed May 27 17:14:37 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
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Apr 19, 2010
I just installed Fedora Core 12 and when attempting use the update utility am receiving the following error:
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Jun 9, 2010
I updated my up to date F12 to F13. I have what must be a 640X480 display with no way to change it. I get an error:
"Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: pgdg90. Please verify its path and try again" on all Yum commands so no yum installs are possible. I don't have the /usr/bin/GLX command So theAIGLX doesn't work.
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Dec 14, 2009
I'm having trouble getting my fusion repos to work. When I try to install something that uses them I get:-
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
rpmfusion-free | 3.9 kB 00:00
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for rpmfusion-free: Damaged repomd.xml file
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Feb 7, 2010
I did a clean install of Fedora 12 (AMD64) two days ago and I have been trying to update the packages. But it won't work. I keep getting these errors. I tried both Software Update and command-line utility to update. code...
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Mar 18, 2011
I just did a fresh install of F14 using a Live USB. I can't do a yum update, I'm getting Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora.I've done a yum clean all and I've tried coping the .repos from another F14 system that's working fine.
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May 5, 2011
While installing CodeLite on F13,there is some error:
[root@localhost ~]# yum install codelite
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Could not retrieve mirrorlist
HTTP Error 404 : mirroslist
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rpmfusion-free. Please verify its path and try again
what i should do to resolve this question?(the computer can conntect to network,because I'm in China?)
I have googling this question,but those methods didn't work
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Jul 8, 2011
When i use command ( yum update ) in Terminal I take this output:
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rpmfusion-free. Please verify its path and try again
I have try to disable "rpmfusion-free' but after this operation i can not take free packets and codecs for mplayer.
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Aug 23, 2010
I recently registered a Red Hat 5 machine. It registered ok and was able to do a yum update. Now, yum update gives this error:
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
There was an error communicating with RHN. RHN support will be disabled. Error communicating with server. The message was:
Temporary failure in name resolution
Could not retrieve mirrorlist <red hat mirror url here>error was
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')>
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')>
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rpmforge. Please verify its path and try again I can ssh into the machine, and I can open up Firefox and browse the web. I have another Red Hat 5 machine set up and working fine, and I've checked that the /etc/yum.conf, /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date, .bash_profile, and /etc/hosts files are all the same (except for hostnames and ip addresses). I'm fairly new to Red Hat, and I don't know what other configuration files to check.
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Jan 11, 2011
get Skype to work on 64 bit have downloaded and installed the 32 bit which installed fine but just wont load
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