Skype woes

[rikona]

Hello Colin,

Sunday, August 24, 2014, 1:49:00 AM, Colin wrote:

> On 24 August 2014 09:26, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
>> On Sun, 2014-08-24 at 09:04 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>>> What do you see for these?
>>> apt-cache policy skype
>>> apt-cache policy skype-bin
>>
>> I see this - which looks suspect.
>>
>> kauer at karl:~$ apt-cache policy skype
>> skype:
>>   Installed: (none)
>>   Candidate: 4.2.0.11-0ubuntu0.12.04.2
>>   Version table:
>>      4.2.0.11-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 0
>>         500 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ saucy/partner amd64
>> Packages
>> kauer at karl:~$ apt-cache policy skype-bin
>> skype-bin:i386:
>>   Installed: (none)
>>   Candidate: 4.2.0.11-0ubuntu0.12.04.2
>>   Version table:
>>      4.2.0.11-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 0
>>         500 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ saucy/partner i386
>> Packages
>>
>> Not sure how this relates to the 4.3 package downloaded direct from
>> Skype.

> It confirms that the version available in the repos for 12.04 is 4.2
> and that you have not got them installed.

I'm running 12.04 and software center showed it as 4.3, but it did not
install 4.3 properly until I uninstalled skype-bin with software
center. Then software center installed 4.3, and 4.3 came up OK.

> It doesn't explain why 4.3 downloaded from their website does not
> work for you.

I did not have to do what Karl is trying to do.

> To reconfirm
> what you are seeing, if you run
> skype --v
> it shows 4.3, but if you just run
> skype
> then onscreen it shows 4.2?  Is it possible it is actually 4.3 but
> they have forgotten to update the displayed version?

When I had the 'problem' it did not work and said it was 4.2 even
though I 'installed' 4.3. Now it is OK, says it is 4.3, and works
well.

Is software center doing something Karl is not doing?

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 rikona