Skype on Breezy?

[Phillip Sc. Bøgh]

> Eamonn Sullivan <eamonn.sullivan <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> It works for me, but it takes a very long time (a minute or so) to
>> start up. That's on a 2.4Ghz Celeron with a gigabyte of RAM. Also, the
>> last time I tried to install the deb (either by downloading it or
>> Skype's repository in my sources.list), I get a complaint about a
>> missing dependency. (I'm at work now, but it's a libqt-mt dependency
>
> Yes, it takes over a minute to start up on my P4 3.2 Ghz machine w/2Gb
> ram.
> That's pretty slow! :( I installed it with:
>
> dpkg --ignore-depends libqt3c102-mt -i skype_1.2.0.17-1_i386.deb

Here is the potential error. Do not use the last update 1.2.0.17 but only
1.2.0.11 (through wget and dpkg -i) and you get no problems. The start-up
time still takes 45 secunds, but function very well.
The 1.2.0.17 has no practical update anyway.

Best regards

Phillip