Hello,

Has someone tried and succeeded in installing Skype in KDE 4.3 on a 64bit machine?

I've Fedora 11 on 64bit laptop, and I installed KDE 4.3 by enabling the kde-testing repos and running an update. Skype being a 32bit program, it is supposed to run fine on a 64bit system provided the libs are installed. Following the instructions I found I enabled, the sky repo, the i386 repos for kde, and then ran yum install skype. I saw comments about this working, but I get a conflict error:

Transaction Check Error:
package qt-1:4.5.2-5.fc11.x86_64 (which is newer than qt-1:4.5.2-1.fc11.i586) is already installed
package phonon-backend-xine-4.3.1-9.fc11.x86_64 (which is newer than phonon-backend-xine-4.3.1-6.fc11.i586) is already installed
package qt-x11-1:4.5.2-5.fc11.x86_64 (which is newer than qt-x11-1:4.5.2-1.fc11.i586) is already installed

Someone in the Fedora forum said the x86_84 and i586 version numbers need to be the same for it to work. But it seems there aren't any later versions of the i586 packages than the ones in brackets above.

It appears that the x86_64 packages are slightly newer than the i386 packages. However, since KDE depends on Qt, you will need to downgrade both KDE and Qt at the same time, since it appears that the i586 Qt packages cannot be co-installed at the same time.

Thanks for the help! Hm... I think I'll skip it in that case. I got Skype working just fine in KDE 4.2 on the 32bit EeePC, so it's too much trouble for just one program.

what if you run "yum install skype" without messing with existing repos?

Works fine in openSUSE 11.1 64bits with some problems with sound but that was related to intel audio driver.

vishalrao wrote:what if you run "yum install skype" without messing with existing repos?

I actually tried that before changing the repos, had the same package conflict problem, that's why I tried with the repos.