Skype Trouble

verori · 09-26-2010, 06:12 PM

I just finished installing Ubuntu yesterday and am very excited. I've installed and removed Skype several times now... with the same result: when I open it and type in username and password, the software runs but is never able to connect to the network. I get no notice of failure to connect, like I do if I type in an incorrect password, the software just stops and closes. What can I do to get it working?

Soadyheid · 09-26-2010, 07:07 PM

If you open a terminal and run skype from there you should get some sort of message about why it's shutting down. Once you know "why" you can move on to the "what"

Play Bonny!

verori · 09-26-2010, 07:42 PM

Ok, I'd be willing to do that. I'm not entirely sure how to run Skype from the Terminal though

GrapefruiTgirl · 09-26-2010, 07:55 PM

Locate your terminal (in Ubuntu, I believe you have "Gnome-terminal" somewhere in your menu system) and click that to open one. That should present you with a terminal window, with a command prompt and a cursor, something like below (this is what mine looks like):

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sasha@reactor:

In your terminal now, at that prompt, you would execute the skype program. Assuming the skype program is located somewhere in your user's $PATH, then just the name should suffice:

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sasha@reactor: skype

If you get an error about 'file not found' or 'no such command', then you will need to find out where the skype program is located, using maybe one of the following sequences, entered at your terminal prompt:

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sasha@reactor: sudo updatedb
sasha@reactor: sudo locate skype

OR:

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sasha@reactor: sudo find / -type f -iname "skype" 2>/dev/null

So, hopefully one of the two above examples, will return to you a full path to the skype program. It may be something like:

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/usr/bin/skype

So that would be the full path+command you would then use, to run skype from the commandline in your terminal like so:

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sasha@reactor: /usr/bin/skype

If you got it, then you will likely see a bunch of stuff scroll down the terminal window when you execute skype; that is where you'll hopefully see some indication of what's going wrong, if anything.

Good luck!