Skype has no 64-bit version for Linux. And since it is now a Microsoft company I am unsure whether there will be any newer version beyond the current 2.20 Beta.
To get it installed on my Fedora 16 64-bit proved to be quite a trying task. After downloading the Fedora RPM, one would think that a simple
yum install skype-2.2.0.35-fedora.i586.rpm
Could have done the trick. Instead I got a
[ericyeoh@harkonen ~]$ skype
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
After trawling through some websites I finally found out that there are some dependencies required. This site provided the answer.
In short you need to:
yum install glibc.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686 libXv.i686 alsa-lib.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686
And I got Skype running. And now I await the next instructions from my overlords via Skype...
Distribution Release: Parrot 6.4
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