Bye Bye Skype for Linux?

[claydoh]

the 64 bit package, which is really a 32bit package that pulls in all the 32bit libs needed (open it with Ark and peek around). The deb installer downloads and install the items in the background.
Not a huge deal but a lot of extras for some. If one has wine installed, that pulls in a few ia32libs packages already so some folks may not have to download as many.

I simply got annoyed at dead hard drive and having to scramble to dig out a spare drive that is older than the dead one, installing, updating, then trying to install skype and wondering why it was taking so long

[Snowhog]

Is your PC 64-bit or 32-bit? I downloaded the 64-bit Skype 4.0 .deb file from Skype and installed it by just clicking on it.

[claydoh]

On my emergency clean unplanned 12.04 install, skype pulls in *all* ia32lib packages, all 200+ (and 300 mb unpacked) of them for version 4. Now the version 2.2 in the Canonical Partner repo only pulls in the minimum 70 or so. iirc this is the case for the 2.2 package downloaded from Skype proper. I am sure that when the version is updated in the Canonical repo they will have fixed that.

[Snowhog]

This is the depends list on my PC after having removed Skype 2.2 and installed Skype 4.0.

skype Depends: lib32stdc++6
Depends: lib32asound2
Depends: ia32-libs
Depends: libc6-i386
Depends: lib32gcc1
Conflicts: <skype-mid>
Conflicts: <skype-mid:i386>
Conflicts: <skype-common>
Conflicts: <skype-common:i386>
Replaces: <skype-mid>
Replaces: <skype-mid:i386>
Replaces: <skype-common>
Replaces: <skype-common:i386>
Conflicts: skype:i386

[claydoh]

My only issues with Skype 4 is the fact that unlike the Deb in the canonical repo, it pulls in ALL 200+ ia32 lib packages, instead of the 70 or so needed, as it is still really a32 bit application

A minor quibble is that I can no longer seem to get the ring tone to play through my speakers while my headset is plugged in, which I could do in ver2. I could hear the ring without wearing my headset. Could just be my bad phonon settings,

As an aside, in 12.10 with pulse audio 2, Skype 2 has individual device listings in its settings drop downs

Sent from my phone

[GreyGeek]

Hi mhumm2,

I had the same problem with Ekiga and had to use a headset to avoid feedback from the phones to the mic. But, over all, Ekiga just doesn't work well.

Teamviewer is great! Probably the fastest and easiest remote control app I've used. I like the way that the remote control connection can be reversed with a single click.

[mhumm2]

GreyGeek;

Hello. I just dl and installed Ekiga. It works, but the echo test fails. Audio feedback amplitude grows to untennible levels until I end the call. I don't see an audio setting to solve that challenge, only what device to use.

Also, in regard to your remote users, have you ever tried Teamviewer7? It's an amazing remote control app that worked for me "right out of the box," of course YMMV. Take care.

mhumm2

[Snowhog]

Nice to here the positive comments. Just uninstalled 2.2 and installed 4.0.

[tomp01]

It looks like I'll have to eat a slice of Humble Pie.

Microsoft released Skype 4.0 for Linux. I tried it out. It works great. If you have the 2.2 version installed then be sure to remove BOTH the skype and skype-bin:i386 apps BEFORE you try to install it.

At this rate my grandson may get 5.0 by the time he enters high school.

I have been on the Skype LInux blog for a while and they kept saying that there was a non beta version in the works. However they would never give any kind of timeline, so it made people very suspicious that they were just being fed bull****. Even right up to release date there was nothing, it just seems to be a very strange way to go about things. Anyway I have it running on Kubuntu, Mint and Zorin OS, it seems very stable and what's more has a lot more features.

[GreyGeek]

You are even more cynical than me!!

It looks like I'll have to eat a slice of Humble Pie.

Microsoft released Skype 4.0 for Linux. I tried it out. It works great. If you have the 2.2 version installed then be sure to remove BOTH the skype and skype-bin:i386 apps BEFORE you try to install it.

At this rate my grandson may get 5.0 by the time he enters high school.

[tomp01]

Perhaps my 7 year old grandson will be able to use Skype 5 on Linux when he enters college. But, would he want to?

You are even more cynical than me!!

[GreyGeek]

Perhaps my 7 year old grandson will be able to use Skype 5 on Linux when he enters college. But, would he want to?

[tomp01]

Skype 4 has just been released and it seems to be pretty stable!!

[barnabas02]

It will be continued.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/05/s...linux-not-dead

[SteveRiley]

What about using Krdc as a client and setting up a VNC server? Then we don't need W(h)ine ...I've never had to install a VNC server, though. Is there a simple "click here and be done" version that could easily go onto the to-be-controlled computer?