skype ppa post upgrade

[Tarun Khanna]

Skype hasn't upgraded their Linux client in ages. I don't think
un-commenting this ppa would work. They publish .deb packages for download
on their website.

Tarun


On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm starting to understand what a ppa is.  For skype, do I want to
> uncomment this line so that, if and when the binary is updated, that apt-
> get will grab the new version?
>
> When upgrading from 9.x to 10.04 this ppa was apparently commented out:
>
> thufir at ARRAKIS:~$ nl /etc/apt/sources.list | grep skype
>    48  # deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-
> free #Skype disabled on upgrade to lucid
> thufir at ARRAKIS:~$
> thufir at ARRAKIS:~$ skype --version
> Skype 2.1.0.81
> Copyright (c) 2004-2009, Skype Limited
> thufir at ARRAKIS:~$
>
>
> thanks,
>
>
> Thufir
>
>
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