Gavin Costello <gavcos <at> gmail.com> writes: > Try deleting your $HOME/.Skype directory and running skype again. Well, I found a thread on UbuntuForms, and installed Skype's latest version with: sudo dpkg --ignore-depends libqt3c102-mt -i skype_1.2.0.17-1_i386.deb and after a small wait, Skype starts up correctly! Thanks for your help, -Frank