Skype woes

[sktsee]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 15:41:41 +0100, Colin Law wrote:

> On 24 August 2014 15:13, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> You saying this made me check which version is currently in 12.04
> (previously I just believed Karl when he said it was 4.2).  You are
> correct however, on 12.04, sudo apt-cache policy skype shows that it is
> 4.3.
> 
> Karl, have you run sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade If
> not then do so and then try apt-cache policy skype again.  It should
> show 4.3.0.37-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

Unfortunately it won't since Karl is using 13.10 (notice the "saucy/
partner" in the repo URL). Since Saucy is EOL'd the version of Skype in 
the Canonical Partner repo is going to be stuck at 4.2. He'll need to 
either upgrade to 14.04.1 and then install Skype from the partner repo 
(which contains 4.3), or install the downloaded deb package from the Skype 
site using dpkg on the command-line (sudo dpkg -i <package name>), or 
using a package manager like gdebi that's good for installing single 3rd 
party packages since it will try to do dependency resolution to get the 
package installed. Since he seems to have run into dependency issues 
trying to install the downloaded deb from Skype, he could manually 
download the two debs listed below from http://archive.canonical.com/pool/
partner/s/skype and see if he has better luck.

skype_4.3.0.37-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_amd64.deb
skype-bin_4.3.0.37-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_i386.deb

Ultimately, he should upgrade since Saucy is no longer receiving security 
updates.

-- 
sktsee