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= Installing Skype on Fedora

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link:https://www.skype.com/[Skype] is a cross-platform proprietary chat (text and video) application.

It also provides voice calls and desktop sharing. It uses a proprietary Internet telephony (VoIP) network called the Skype protocol.

== Installation

Please note: the latest versions of Skype work only on 64 bit architectures.

It is possible to install Skype on Fedora using these package methods.

* Using the RPM by Skype
* Using a Flatpak hosted by https://flathub.org[Flathub].

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=== Installing Skype using the Skype RPM repository

To install Skype using the Skype RPM repository:

. Add the Skype repository
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$ sudo curl -o /etc/yum.repos.d/skype-stable.repo https://repo.skype.com/rpm/stable/skype-stable.repo
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. Install Skype
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$ sudo dnf install skypeforlinux
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=== Installing Skype using Flatpak

To install Skype using link:https://flatpak.org/index.html[Flatpak]:

. Install Flatpak using dnf:
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$ sudo dnf install -y flatpak
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. Install Skype using Flatpak:
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$ sudo flatpak install -y --from https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/com.skype.Client.flatpakref
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. To run Skype:
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You should find a menu shortcut in your DE.
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To run it from the command line:
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$ flatpak run com.skype.Client
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