I use Skype a lot. But although Skype has a fantastic version for Windows, the Linux part is a bit weak. I run Fedora 14 on my laptop(Compaq CQ42 173TU) and for some reason, Skype wont run on it. With the RPM package of 2.2 Beta, it gets installed but never runs. So I installed the static version of it following this instructions here. But when I would try to run skype from terminal, this error would occur - [bash] [root@localhost ~]# skype skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXv.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [/bash] So to check which dependency package I was missing, I searched with YUM - [bash] [root@localhost ~]# yum whatprovides libXv.so.1 [/bash] and found that this specific package libXv-1.0.5-1.fc13.i686 has that specific file. So although I’m running Fedora 14 and it’s of x86_64 architecture, I installed that package which was meant for Fedora 13 and i686 architecture. Then ran skype from terminal and it worked!
The first thing I noticed after installing Fedora 14 was that there are updates available for my packages. And not a few, more than 400 updates! Sizing about 500mb!
Now, I use a lame internet plan of 256kbps. Updating all the packages in one go will make me keep this system on for about 5 hours. Thats not possible for me. So I needed a way to update few packages everytime and keep doing that whenever I find time.
Reading the title may make you feel it’s pretty simple - Download the flash player rpm package from adobe.com, install it and Done. I thought so too. But even if flash-plugin was installed, Firefox wasn’t detecting it. So did some old-style googling, and came up with these commands.
