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    How to Install Skype on Fedora 35/34

    By RahulApril 19, 20222 Mins Read

    Skype is the most popular application for making internet calls for free and cheap online calls to phones and mobiles with Skype. Skype is available for most operating systems for free. You can directory download skype for your operating system from its official download page. It also provides some great features like conference calls, instant messaging, and video calls. For using some advanced features, you may have to pay for them at a very low cost.

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    Skype is also available for Android and iPhone’s. This article will help you to install Skype on CentOS, RHEL and Fedora Systems.

    Step 1 – Download Skype RPM

    First of all, download the latest available Skype rpm file from its official download page. The desktop users click here to download the file and the terminal users run below command.

    wget https://repo.skype.com/latest/skypeforlinux-64.rpm 
    

    Step 2 – Install Skype RPM

    Now install the downloaded package using yum localinstall command. So it can also resolve all the dependencies and install on your system.

    sudo dnf localinstall skypeforlinux-64.rpm 
    

    Step 3 – Launch Skype

    You can use the graphical navigation menu or use the following command to launch Skype from the command line and accept terms and conditions for the first time.

    skypeforlinux 
    

    You can also launch skype using the desktop launcher.

    How to Install Skype on fedora

    installing Skype on Fedora

    Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed skype on your system. To Install skype on Ubuntu visit, Skype Ubuntu installation page.

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    19 Comments

    1. jason on September 16, 2019 7:31 pm

      chmod 4755 /usr/share/skypeforlinux/chrome-sandbox

      the above was needed before skypeforlinux would load for any user on centos 7.6

      Reply
      • Todor on October 8, 2019 7:39 pm

        Thank you Jason!!!

        Reply
    2. brother tech support on August 27, 2018 10:24 pm

      First, download Skype RPM on your system and install it. After installing, launch the Skype on the system get started with it. All the steps are well defined in the above blog-post that will help you to perform sequentially to install the Skype Centos rhel fedora on your system.

      Reply
    3. Anuj on May 4, 2016 6:58 am

      I’m getting error

      GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2708: You forgot to call g_type_init()

      (process:13744): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0′ failed

      (process:13744): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2708: You forgot to call g_type_init()

      (process:13744): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2708: You forgot to call g_type_init()

      (process:13744): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2708: You forgot to call g_type_init()

      (process:13744): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_add_interface_static: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_INSTANTIATABLE (instance_type)’ failed

      (process:13744): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2708: You forgot to call g_type_init()

      (process:13744): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_interface_add_prerequisite: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_INTERFACE (interface_type)’ failed

      (process:13744): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0′ failed

      (process:13744): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_add_interface_static: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_INSTANTIATABLE (instance_type)’ failed

      (process:13744): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_style_get: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)’ failed
      /usr/bin/skype: line 4: 13744 Killed $SKYPE_HOME/skype –resources=$SKYPE_HOME $*
      [[email protected] /]#

      Reply
    4. avi on October 14, 2014 3:46 pm

      On running skype getting this below mentioned error:
      #skype
      /usr/src/skype/skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No
      ]# sudo yum install libXv-1.0.7-2.el6.i686
      Package libXv-1.0.7-2.el6.i686 already installed and latest version

      Please suggest

      Reply
    5. amatu-salaam on October 13, 2014 5:06 pm

      Please i have gone through the process and gone through it again and againg but I don’t get to be succesfull with the final command “skype” which is supposed to luanch the terms and conditions page.
      can you please help me.
      Thanks.

      Reply
    6. Prabir on August 18, 2014 12:02 pm

      Worked like a charm. Thanks a lot Rahul

      Reply
    7. Théo on August 13, 2014 11:16 pm

      Excellent post, but it needs to have two corrections made:

      1: Specify the file name when you execute the wget command. The current file name is: skype-4.3.0.37.tar.bz2
      2: On my particular Fedora install, the directory “/usr/share/lang/” did not exist. Just create it.

      Aside from this two corrections, works like a charm. Thanks a lot!

      Reply
    8. Doug Masiero on August 12, 2014 2:27 pm

      I’m running CentOS 6.5 and upgraded to Skype 4.3 from 4.0. The problem I experienced was Skype would launch but hang/freeze and then crash.

      The fix for me was to add the export GTK2_RC_FILES line to /usr/bin/skype file. My /usr/bin/skype file from version 4.0 did not contain this line. I also renamed my ~/.Skype/%USERNAME directory so that a new one could be created at next launch. Here is how my /usr/bin/skype files reads now. Hope this helps someone out there. :-{)

      #!/bin/sh
      export SKYPE_HOME=”/opt/skype”
      export GTK2_RC_FILES=”/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc”

      $SKYPE_HOME/skype –resources=$SKYPE_HOME $*

      Reply
    9. raju on August 5, 2014 6:29 am

      Hey Rahul,

      nice post yaar… but i want start skype from desktop icon/launcher. how to do this?

      Reply
      • Prabir on August 18, 2014 12:06 pm

        Simply click on Applications > Internet > Skype
        It is working for me, most probably for you as well..

        Reply
    10. Sharjeel on August 4, 2014 7:16 am

      Rahul,
      Very nicely written guide. almost worked perfectly for me. But something strange is happening on my machine. Followed instructions, everything went smooth. Skype screen pops up, after putting in valid credentials, it signs me in and then skype crashes. Gone.
      Any idea why this is happening? I’m using CentOS 6.5 and Skype 4.3

      Reply
      • Atul on August 4, 2014 12:49 pm

        Same is happening to me too. Any Ideas or anyone resolved this – Solutions helps us lot

        Reply
      • Federico on August 4, 2014 2:27 pm

        In my case Skype didn’t crash, but it just froze… I solved by installing webkitgtk (and dependencies)

        Reply
        • Aty on August 5, 2014 5:39 am

          Thanks this resolve my issue for Skype 4.3 on Centos 6.5.

          Reply
          • Luis on October 17, 2014 12:01 pm

            Thanks Rahul and Sharheel. Installing webkitgtk.i686 in SLC6 (RHEL 6) made skype work past the stage when it froze!

            Reply
    11. Bradd on October 7, 2013 5:27 am

      Yes Manish, I agree .. Thanks Rahul.

      Reply
    12. Manish on October 7, 2013 5:25 am

      This is really very easy steps to install skype.. This post deserve +1.

      Reply
      • Rahul on October 7, 2013 5:27 am

        Thanks Manish for appreciate.

        Reply

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