Three Easy Steps on How to Install Skype on Fedora 9

Linux growth and community exposures continues gradually and steadily. Nowadays, even new and upcoming commercial applications around are creating their own released versions for Linux OS and for the community to use. One of them is Skype.

Skype for Linux needs the below minimum requirements

The minimum hardware requirements are:

* 400 MHz processor
* 128 MB RAM
* 10 MB free disk space on your hard drive
* Sound Card, speakers and microphone
* Internet Connection (either dial-up: minimum 33.6 Kbps modem, or any broadband: cable, DSL, etc.)

Nowadays, most PCs are built to have higher specs compared to the above.

Skype Installation on Fedora

Here are few steps on how to install Skype on Fedora.

Steps One

Currently, livna repo does not provide Fedora rpms for Skype. As an alternative, simply create a skype repo file and save it as /etc/yum.repos.d/skype.repo . It should contain similar lines as shown below


[skype]
name=Skype Repository
baseurl=http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/updates/i586/
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-skype
enable=1



Steps Two

Launch your yum to install Skype on Fedora

# yum -y install skype

Steps Three

You are good to go. Launch Skype, login with your details and start calling your contact numbers

# skype

Do not forget to edit back skype.repo and modify

enable=1

to

enable=0

so your next yum command will avoid reading the skype repo back again.

All is done.