Re: [Package] Skype x86_64 RPM for Fedora

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This is not a "real" 64-bit version of Skype, it's just a Debian
package converted to RPM using alien:

$ rpm -qip skype-2.2.0.35-2.x86_64.rpm
Name        : skype
[...]
(Converted from a deb package by alien version 8.85.)

The Debian package itself only embeds the only available 32-bit
version of Skype with some packaging tricks to make easier its
installation on a 64-bit Debian.

By the way, this RPM wouldn't work if prelink is installed (this is
the case in a default Fedora installation): prelink modifies binaries
to fast up their execution. But the skype executable has a internal
routine to check if it was modified; in such a case, it won't launch.
You RPM doesn't contain any conf. file to avoid prelink from touching
the skype executable.

At last, did you get the permission from Skype to redistribute their binaries?

For all these reasons, I'd avoid this strange RPM like the plague...
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