Skype woes

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2014-08-24 at 13:37 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> 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.

Of course. That's why renaming it was the first thing I did with it
(actually I copied it out of my home directory, then deleted the
original). Made no difference.

> 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.

Yes, well - I did try, Maybe I didn't try hard enough. I haven't
retained the exact list of dependencies, but at one point some kind of
bluetooth module was being demanded. I called it a day.

I will wait until I've upgraded to 14.04, and see if Skype installs on a
clean slate.

Regards, K.

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