Here's another lesson.
It appears that I could have been way off the mark with my belief that there had been a second, or even manual, version of Skype installed.
I assume that you removed Skype with:
Code:
sudo apt-get remove skype
This command removes the
skype package but does not purge its configuration or, importantly, remove any automatically-installed dependencies of the
skype package. In fact, as part of the output of the above command, the following is displayed:
Code:
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
skype-bin:i386
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
As we've seen before, the actual Skype command to run the GUI is installed by the
skype-bin package. So, in this case, Skype will still run.
This is one of the reasons that I always remove a package with:
Code:
sudo apt-get --purge autoremove packagename
This ensures that the package's configuration is purged and any automatically-installed dependencies are also uninstalled. The only thing that may be left are personal configuration files (usually dot files) in your home directory.
I like it when a mystery is solved.
