How to install the latest skype from website
Posted: Sat 06 Jul 2013, 05:22
Download the latest dynamic skype for linux:
http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/ ... pe=dynamic
If the link does not work you can surf to it from:
http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/ ... -computer/
Install (by load-on-the-fly for example) qt-4.8.2-stripped.sfs from:
http://smokey01.com/pemasu/pet_packages-upup/
Click on the .tar.bz2 archive of the downloaded skype. Select all and extract to /usr/local. Copy /usr/local/skype-xxxxx/skype to /usr/bin/skype. Open with geany a new file and put in it:
Save it as skype4.2 in /usr/bin and give it execute permissions. Create a link to the desktop of /usr/bin/skype4.2 to launch it. Test skype4.2 by launching it clicking on the desktop link.
If your webcam does not work in skype install v4l-utils for your puppy. In precise you find v4l-utils in ubuntu repository. For slacko 5.5 you find v4l-utils to:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=85537
For lucid you find v4l-utils to:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=62667
For wary you find v4l-utils to:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=83569
Open with geany /usr/bin/skype4.2 and uncomment one libv4l preload a time to find the right one which works for you. Example:
Save the change and test webcam in skype by launching skype4.2 clicking on the desktop link.
The latest skype works in precise and slacko 5.5. In older puppies it could not work. Use skype-2.2.0.35.tar.bz2:
http://www.4shared.com/file/StyW-ofz/sk ... 35tar.html
http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/ ... pe=dynamic
If the link does not work you can surf to it from:
http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/ ... -computer/
Install (by load-on-the-fly for example) qt-4.8.2-stripped.sfs from:
http://smokey01.com/pemasu/pet_packages-upup/
Click on the .tar.bz2 archive of the downloaded skype. Select all and extract to /usr/local. Copy /usr/local/skype-xxxxx/skype to /usr/bin/skype. Open with geany a new file and put in it:
Code: Select all
#!/bin/bash
#export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so
#export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so
exec skype
If your webcam does not work in skype install v4l-utils for your puppy. In precise you find v4l-utils in ubuntu repository. For slacko 5.5 you find v4l-utils to:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=85537
For lucid you find v4l-utils to:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=62667
For wary you find v4l-utils to:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=83569
Open with geany /usr/bin/skype4.2 and uncomment one libv4l preload a time to find the right one which works for you. Example:
Code: Select all
#!/bin/bash
#export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so
exec skype
The latest skype works in precise and slacko 5.5. In older puppies it could not work. Use skype-2.2.0.35.tar.bz2:
http://www.4shared.com/file/StyW-ofz/sk ... 35tar.html