Skype woes

[rikona]

Hello Karl,

Saturday, August 23, 2014, 5:14:22 PM, Karl wrote:

> On Sat, 2014-08-23 at 16:49 -0700, rikona wrote:
>> ***There are two things that must be removed - skype and skype-bin.***
>> Software center lists both but does not remove bin, which seems to be
>> the critical thing to remove. I used software center to remove both,
>> as two different uninstalls, then did an install and 4.3 came up
>> working.

> A search of my entire disk reveal nothing called "skype" or anything
> containing "skype" in it's name, except for some things in places
> like /usr/share - icons and the like. Certainly nothing executable and
> no conf files. apt-get reports no such package installed when I try
> "apt-get remove" on skype or skype-bin. Maybe my search was too
> simplistic, or maybe I should have searched as root.

> About all I can think now is that skype installs a library of some sort
> that is lying around confusing the issue.

Could be. Does software center do something during an uninstall that
apt does not do? I would think it was the same, but don't know.

Also, after the two separate uninstalls, I still had some files with
skype in the name, but no skype or skype-bin. It seemed as though
uninstalling skype-bin did the trick, but that by itself seems to not
be enough. In that respect, it would seem as though you did a more
thorough job of removing things. It would be good to know what's
really needed to get 4.3 to work. When I did the reinstall of just
"skype", software center again had two separate entries, as it did
before, one for skype and one for skype-bin. Seems a bit odd to me...

-- 

 rikona