Latest Skype 8.9.0.1-1.x86_64 cannot be installed Centos 7.4...

[psposito]

The latest Skype (ver 8.9) on my CentOs 7 Desktop/Workstation machines cannot be installed/updated....

When updating, I get the following:

error: Failed dependencies:
libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.20)(64bit) is needed by skypeforlinux-8.9.0.1-1.x86_64

Any suggestions?

[TrevorH]

Report it to Microsoft/Skype. They built it against a newer glibc than we ship and it cannot be used.

[psposito]

Already did! I hope they will response... I am not the only one..

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/sky ... 266d235689

But what about, if they do not do any further steps?

[mghe]

But what about, if they do not do any further steps?

Old version still works very well or just change to other communicator.

[psposito]

It is not easy to switch... Skype is very famous versus Jitsi or others.... All of my contacts use Skype...

[TrevorH]

The old one is still in their repo so you could just install it by full version number - yum install skypeforlinux-5.5.0.1-1

[psposito]

Now I am using skypeforlinux-5.5.0.1-1 but I am not aware for how long it will operate without the need for update...

[TrevorH]

They usually announce well in advance when an older one will stop. For 4.x they gave at least 3 months notice.

[psposito]

Thank you for the answer.

Up to now, their answer is that they will not build it for CentOs and RHEL....

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/sky ... 266d235689

"What's the point in first releasing Skype Beta built against an older version of glibc, for RHEL/CentOS users to use/test, only to
use the unsupported version to build the stable release against?
Hell, now even Google does this with Chrome for CentOS 7 anymore..."
Milos Blazevic 31/10/2017....

So what can be done when the current (Beta) version will expire?

[indikaaruna]

Thank you for the answer.

Up to now, their answer is that they will not build it for CentOs and RHEL....

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/sky ... 266d235689

"What's the point in first releasing Skype Beta built against an older version of glibc, for RHEL/CentOS users to use/test, only to
use the unsupported version to build the stable release against?
Hell, now even Google does this with Chrome for CentOS 7 anymore..."
Milos Blazevic 31/10/2017....

So what can be done when the current (Beta) version will expire?

Still issue is not fixed? Do you have good news from microsoft ?