Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Installing Skype on Fedora 16 x64 machine using Autoplus (Error: Protected multilib versions)

Presumption

you are getting "Error: Protected multilib versions" when trying to install Skype using Autoplus on x64 system.

Solution

"Error: Protected multilib versions: glibc-2.14.90-24.fc16.6.i686 != glibc-2.14.90-14.x86_64"

This error seems to be occurred because skype is x32 bit executable but the system is x64, the "file" output says

/usr/bin/skype: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, stripped


To solve this problem you have to install the glibc but the x32 bit, to do that, simple execute

$ sudo yum install  glibc-2.14.90-24.fc16.6.i686


If you have more "Protected multilib versions" just install thier x32 version then run autoplus and install Skype.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks! It didn't work for me exactly this way, but it was a great help. I just used 'sudo yum install glibc' (without the version number, etc.). I did the same with the other packagages that went wrong.

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