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5
Mar

kopete-protocol-facebook is no more

This plugin has been obsoleted by upstream, facebook now supports the xmpp protocol and it’s preferred to use this instead.
More information:
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=297991732130
http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/644

5
Mar

Skype on Fedora 12

Howto install Skype on 64bit Fedora 12.

1. Set up the skype.repo

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/skype.repo


[skype]
name=Skype Repository
baseurl=http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/updates/i586/
#gpgkey=http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/rpm-public-key.asc
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-skype
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

2. run

yum install qt-x11.i686 qt.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 libXv.i686

3. run

yum install --nogpgcheck skype

This will get you Skype 2.1.0.81

Source from http://fedorasolved.org/multimedia-solutions/installing-skype

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