Skype woes

[Colin Law]

On 24 August 2014 22:34, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-08-24 at 15:41 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>> 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
>
> I generally run update before anything else, so I'm pretty sure I did do
> that before. Probably did not do the dist-upgrade.
>
> However I have now done both, and the result from policy is identical -
> version 4.2 for both skype and skype-bin.

This is not surprising as, had you read the rest of my message, you
would have seen that I thought you were running 12.04, but as sktsee
pointed out you are running 13.10 which is past end of life so will
not receive any updates.  You must upgrade your system.

Colin