Thanks a lot for the useful links. I downloaded and installed precompiled rpm from http://rpms.plnet.rs/plnet-centos5-i386/RPMS.plnet/skype-2.1.0.81-1.el5.noarch.rpm and it seems to work now.
By the way, the repo from which I downloaded the package contains many interesting rpms. Its maintainer does the good job. Thanks again. Best regards, Ivan On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:20:20 -0800 Akemi Yagi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 5:02 AM, Der Kybernetiker > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > has anybody installed Skype under SL5 successfully? > > > > I did everything according to instructions at > > http://punkts.org/trac/wiki/Skype22ForCentOS5 > > but it freezes as soon as I try to type anything into the logon > > window. > > > > I'm using Scientific Linux 5.7 and Genius Slim 2020AF Web Cam. > > You may want to check out this CentOS mailing list thread: > > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2012-January/122298.html > > Looks like there are a few possible solutions. One of them is to use > the static version referenced in http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Skype . > Avoiding 2.2.x seems to be a better option (?) at this moment. > > Akemi
