Why is there no 64bits version for Fedora?

[fhuberts]

most other Linux versions offered are both 32 and 64 bit versions.

Why is there no 64 bits version for Fedora?

And why is the one that is offered still marked as being for Fedora 10? We're on 15 now, and on 16 in about 1 or 2 weeks!

[arpad]

As far as I know, there is no 64bit version for any Linux distro.  You have to manually grab the 32bit libs that are required for it to run.  The dependencies don't work on opensuse either.

[sterler]

You can run "ldd /usr/bin/skype" to see what libraries it needs.

[LamerMan]

Thanks. So I just ran that command in a terminal.

I get a list :

library_name ==> library_path/library_name (hexadecimal)

There is just one exception,  a row with :

/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0X4863e000)

I used yum install ld-linux.so.2 (as root)

Response was that glibc-2.14.5-i686 latest version is already installed.

Cheese works OK, too.

So ?

[sterler]

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LamerMan wrote:

Thanks. So I just ran that command in a terminal.

I get a list :

library_name ==> library_path/library_name (hexadecimal)

There is just one exception,  a row with :

/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0X4863e000)

I used yum install ld-linux.so.2 (as root)

Response was that glibc-2.14.5-i686 latest version is already installed.

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But what was the exception?  That line just indicates that /lib/ld-linux.so.2 was found.  It's not flagging that as a problem.  I don't have a 64-bit system with glibc-2.14, but Skype runs fine with a 32-bit glibc-2.14, and /lib/ld-linux.so.2 is always a 32-bit binary.

It might help if you'd indicate which Llinux distribution you are running.

[drjolo]

I am using 64bit version of Fedora 16 and Skype started to work after I did

yum install ld-linux.so.2
yum install libasound.so.2
yum install libXv.so.1
yum install libXss.so.1
yum install libQtDBus.so.4
yum install libQtGui.so.4

Good luck!

[glebovitz]

I think this is ridiculous. There are 64 bit versions for ubuntu and debian. There should be a 64 bit version for Fedora.

[AXXITE]

...and for openSUSE - the buildservice does a marvelous job in compiling for different distros - including Fedora