Skype woes

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

> Skype for Linux, 4.3.0.37-1 is causing me grief.
>
> I downloaded it, installed it using the software centre and all seemed
> to go well, but when run it displayed version 4.2 and said "Skype can't
> connect".
>
> So I used "apt-get remove skype", and that too seemed to go well. Trying
> to run skype failed, no such command.
>
> Then I installed again, this time using dpkg. Again all seemed to go
> well. When run from the command line with the "--version" option it
> reports "Skype 4.3.0.37", but the login window it opens when run
> normally is "Skype 4.2 for Linux".
>
> Further attempts to install from the downloaded .deb file led into
> dependency hell (which is odd, that didn't happen the first couple of
> times).
>
> Is there a quick fix? Plenty of people seem to be using the later
> version...
>
> Regards, K.



I got the 'can't connect' until I got the next version.  Mine shows version
4.3 and it works fine.  Did you completely remove it?  I think there's a
purge command or you might be able to remove it completely using synaptic.
Not sure if I helped any.


garyk
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