Skype woes

[Colin Law]

On 24 August 2014 11:48, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-08-24 at 10:39 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>> when you searched for files with skype in the name did you specify to
>> ignore case?  I see a suggestion that the config directory may be
>> .Skype.  If you still have a .Skype dir then the suggestion is to
>> delete it.
>
> I did not delete ~/.Skype, as I did not want to lose my history etc. If
> there is anything in !/,Skype that affects the install version, the
> software is even more crap than I thought.

I don't think anyone here is going to argue with on that point.
But you said you had nothing with skype in the name on your computer,
you particularly mentioned conf files.  To see if that was the problem
all you had to do was rename the folder.

>
> Since the 4.3 package now will not install at all (dependencies) I'm not
> sure where to go with this now.

Well that means that at last you have managed to remove everything
that skype depends on, so that is probably good.  Can you not just
install the dependencies?  I presume you are trying to install the one
from their website.  Move the .Skype folder out of the way first.

Colin