Well, I guess we knew it was coming, what with MS owning Skype. For awhile, it was quite smooth, including TC5, which enabled me to install Skype by just downloading the rpm and running, even on a 64 bit machine, yum install skype-whatever.rpm
However, now there seem to be problems with nss-softokn-freebl and possibly a few others, keeping the package from being installed. One gets the multilib problem and even using the setopt=protected for the multilib issue doesn't fix it, as it apparently needs an older version of teh nss-softokn.
It's unfortunate that so many potential customers and employers require Skype and in many situations, one can't simply say, Use something else.
Hopefully, someone with more packaging skills than myself will fix it. As it's 3rd party, I don't think submitting a bug report will help, though realistically, more Fedora users will be bothered by Skype not working than Skype users bothered by its not working with Fedora.
Or, I suppose I could go back to TC5, install that, install Skype, then update. Not sure whether or not that would fix it or not, but I can always use Skype on something else if necessary, as, at the moment, I think F19 is the only one that's broken it.
Somehow, I doubt we can rely on MS to fix it.
For what it's worth, I took a somewhat older version of F19--not sure when I installed it, it might be TC3, that had skype already installed, and updated. Skype continued to work without problems. So, for those to whom skype is important, about all I can say is you might want to start with TC3, install skype, then update. (I tried with TC5 and that actually had the same problem as TC6, so I'm guessing the machine where it's working was installed with TC3).
However, now there seem to be problems with nss-softokn-freebl and possibly a few others, keeping the package from being installed. One gets the multilib problem and even using the setopt=protected for the multilib issue doesn't fix it, as it apparently needs an older version of teh nss-softokn.
It's unfortunate that so many potential customers and employers require Skype and in many situations, one can't simply say, Use something else.
Hopefully, someone with more packaging skills than myself will fix it. As it's 3rd party, I don't think submitting a bug report will help, though realistically, more Fedora users will be bothered by Skype not working than Skype users bothered by its not working with Fedora.
Or, I suppose I could go back to TC5, install that, install Skype, then update. Not sure whether or not that would fix it or not, but I can always use Skype on something else if necessary, as, at the moment, I think F19 is the only one that's broken it.
Somehow, I doubt we can rely on MS to fix it.
For what it's worth, I took a somewhat older version of F19--not sure when I installed it, it might be TC3, that had skype already installed, and updated. Skype continued to work without problems. So, for those to whom skype is important, about all I can say is you might want to start with TC3, install skype, then update. (I tried with TC5 and that actually had the same problem as TC6, so I'm guessing the machine where it's working was installed with TC3).
