Thanks a lot for the useful links. I downloaded and installed
precompiled rpm from
http://rpms.plnet.rs/plnet-centos5-i386/RPMS.plnet/skype-2.1.0.81-1.el5.noarch.rpm
and it seems to work now.

By the way, the repo from which I downloaded the package contains many
interesting rpms. Its maintainer does the good job.

Thanks again.

Best regards,

Ivan


On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:20:20 -0800
Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 5:02 AM, Der Kybernetiker
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > has anybody installed Skype under SL5 successfully?
> >
> > I did everything according to instructions at
> > http://punkts.org/trac/wiki/Skype22ForCentOS5
> > but it freezes as soon as I try to type anything into the logon
> > window.
> >
> > I'm using Scientific Linux 5.7 and Genius Slim 2020AF Web Cam.
> 
> You may want to check out this CentOS mailing list thread:
> 
> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2012-January/122298.html
> 
> Looks like there are a few possible solutions. One of them is to use
> the static version referenced in http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Skype .
> Avoiding 2.2.x seems to be a better option (?) at this moment.
> 
> Akemi