How to install Skype on Fedora (setting up skype on fedora)

How to install and update Skype on Fedora

1. First you need to import GPG key

Open terminal and past one line by line

[ismail@localhost ~]$ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0xD66B746E

[ismail@localhost ~]$ gpg -a -o /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-skype --export 0xD66B746E


2. Now have to setup skype repository

to do this you need to create a file in the following path

[ismail@localhost ~]$ su -c 'vi /etc/yum.repos.d/skype.repo'

and now once press key i and paste the following code in opened file

[skype]
name=Skype Repository
baseurl=http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/updates/i586/
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-skype

3. Install skype using yum

yum install skype