Skype woes

[Colin Law]

On 24 August 2014 17:03, sktsee <sktseer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).

Ah, true, I was put off by the 12.04 in the version.

> 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.

+1
Time to upgrade, Karl.

Colin