Skype

Skype is a program to do video phone calls over the network.

= Get it = Download Skype from http://www.skype.com. The following example has been tested on 2010-06-03. It takes SUSE Linux 11.2 as example. Other distributions should work same or similar: yast -i xorg-x11-libXv-32bit bunzip2 Download/skype* tar xvf Download/skype*.tar
 * Surf to http://www.skype.com
 * Choose "Get Skype -> Get Skype for Linux -> Download now -> Static"
 * open a console
 * find out if you have a 32bit or 64bit system
 * if you have an X64 operating system, install a graphical library:
 * unpack the file:

= Run it = cd skype* ./skype
 * run skype:

= Configure it = You will now have to select "Options -> Sound Devices -> Make a test call" and experiment a bit with what Sound Card you use. "Make a test call" will explain everything to you.

= Problems =

Audio

 * Does not work with Mandriva 2008
 * Does not work with Mandriva 2009