Install Skype 4.3 on RHEL7.3

https://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2012/install-skype-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel-scientific-linux-sl/

http://blog.chinaunix.net/uid-14735472-id-4934982.html

Install Skype 4.3 on RHEL7.3

1. Install Skype 4.3 on Fedora 25/24/23/22/21/20 and CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL) 7.3/6.9

1.1 Change root user

su -
## OR ##
sudo -i

 

1.2 Install needed repositories

Needed only on CentOS/RHEL

## CentOS 7, Red Hat (RHEL) 7 and Scientific Linux 7 ##
yum localinstall https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
yum localinstall http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-5.el7.nux.noarch.rpm

1.3 Install Needed Dependencies

## Fedora 21/20/19/18/17/16 and CentOS/RHEL 7.3/6.9 ##
yum install alsa-lib.i686 fontconfig.i686 freetype.i686 glib2.i686 libSM.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 libXi.i686 libXrandr.i686 libXrender.i686 libXv.i686 libstdc++.i686 pulseaudio-libs.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686 zlib.i686 qtwebkit.i686

Same commands on multiple lines:

## Fedora 21/20/19/18/17/16 and CentOS/RHEL 7.3/6.9 ##
yum install alsa-lib.i686 fontconfig.i686 freetype.i686 \
glib2.i686 libSM.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 libXi.i686 \
libXrandr.i686 libXrender.i686 libXv.i686 libstdc++.i686 \
pulseaudio-libs.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686 zlib.i686 qtwebkit.i686

1.4 Download Skype 4.3 Dynamic

cd /tmp

## Skype 4.3 Dynamic for Fedora/CentOS/RHEL/SL ##
wget --trust-server-names http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-dynamic

1.5 Extract Skype

mkdir /opt/skype

## Extract Skype 4.3 ##
tar xvf skype-4.3* -C /opt/skype --strip-components=1

1.6 Create Launcher

## Link skype.desktop ##
ln -s /opt/skype/skype.desktop /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop

## Link icons (copy and paste all rows at once) ##
## Thank you Andrej Podzimek for this code and idea ##
for icon in /opt/skype/icons/*; do
ressuffix="${icon##*_}"
res="${ressuffix%%.*}"
ln -s "$icon" /usr/share/icons/hicolor/"$res"/apps/skype.png
done

## Update gtk icon cache (needed at least Gnome/GTK envorinments) ##
gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/hicolor

## Create empty /usr/bin/skype file and set permissions ##
touch /usr/bin/skype
chmod 755 /usr/bin/skype

Open /usr/bin/skype with text editor and add following content:

Fedora 25/24/23/22/21/20 / CentOS 7 / Red Hat (RHEL) 7 / Scientific Linux (SL) 7

#!/bin/sh
export SKYPE_HOME="/opt/skype"
 
$SKYPE_HOME/skype --resources=$SKYPE_HOME $*

2. Use Skype

2.1 Start Skype

skype

*Pay attention: it may be different with below steps. However, yum install whatever it is lack of.

/usr/bin/skype: /opt/skype/skype: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory
[root@localhost tmp]# yum install glibc.i686

[root@localhost tmp]# skype
/opt/skype/skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXv.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[root@localhost tmp]# yum install libstdc++.so.6

[root@localhost tmp]# skype
/opt/skype/skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXv.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[root@localhost tmp]# yum install libXv.so.1

[root@localhost tmp]# skype
/opt/skype/skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[root@localhost tmp]# yum install libXss.so.1

[root@localhost tmp]# skype
/opt/skype/skype: error while loading shared libraries: libQtDBus.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[root@localhost tmp]# yum install libQtDBus.so.4

[root@localhost tmp]# skype
/opt/skype/skype: error while loading shared libraries: libQtWebKit.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[root@localhost tmp]# yum install libQtWebKit.so.4

...... ...... ...... ......

2.2 Login Skype

Skype 4.3 Login