Skype 4.2 for Linux

Habitual · 08-05-2014, 06:17 PM

"Skype can't connect" message using Skype 4.2?

Apparently, Microsoft is not allowing 4.2 connections any more.
http://community.skype.com/t5/Linux/...ght/true#M9499

metageek · 08-05-2014, 06:49 PM

Yes, we're all getting that. You need to get the new version but this requires pulseaudio. I am not going to add pulseaudio, so I am moving to google hangouts. I will only use skype on android or a windows vm...

Habitual · 08-05-2014, 08:50 PM

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ml#post5215838
I have yet to read all 4 pages so far to see if there's a 4.3 for Slackware 14.0 x86_64 multilib.

God, I hope someone (including me?) can get it on my current install.

solarfields · 08-06-2014, 04:53 AM

mine still works... version is 4.2.0.13

Alien Bob · 08-06-2014, 05:00 AM

Try logging out and then logging back in.

Eric

WiseDraco · 08-06-2014, 06:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by solarfields

mine still works... version is 4.2.0.13

strange. mine stop work on monday or even saturday.
4.2.x
now i install Drakeo 4.3 version, and it works again.
yet it be good to go away from this microsoft version. sadly, i have valuable contacts in skype....

Habitual · 08-06-2014, 10:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien Bob

Try logging out and then logging back in.

Eric

I tried that a dozen times.

Apparently, it's being discussed also at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-a-4175508618/
Some folks reporting that alsa isn't working on 4.3 and I have alsa packages installed.

I'm waiting on Drakeo to wrap up a build for 14.0 64/Multi-lib

Skype 4.2.0.11

Thanks.

bimboleum · 08-06-2014, 10:06 AM

Hi,
I am on 4.2.0.13 and I can get on skype OK ... I have had problems with it marking me as "away" even though I am here, clacking away at the keyboard but the skype connection still works OK .. mind you, I only use skype for chats .. no calls

cheers
pete

saruman@ruvolo-hilton.org

bimboleum · 08-06-2014, 10:19 AM

Hi,
Further to my last post, I just read the fatuous statement concerning retiring Skype 4.2 for linux. Interestingly, it states that if you are already signed on with skype 4.2, you will not be required to update until you log off skype.

It just so happens that I am ALWAYS logged in to skype ... from my laptop at home, from my desktop at work and (today) from my workstation at home. i don't think there has been a time when I have not been logged on for the past year, so that may be why I could log in from my workstation this morning .... skype not very smart??

cheers
pete

Habitual · 08-06-2014, 10:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bimboleum

Hi,
Further to my last post, I just read the fatuous statement concerning retiring Skype 4.2 for linux. Interestingly, it states that if you are already signed on with skype 4.2, you will not be required to update until you log off skype.

It just so happens that I am ALWAYS logged in to skype ... from my laptop at home, from my desktop at work and (today) from my workstation at home. i don't think there has been a time when I have not been logged on for the past year, so that may be why I could log in from my workstation this morning .... skype not very smart??

cheers
pete

I too stayed logged in for weeks at a time.
Recently, I got a screen "flash" and Skype disco'd and I couldn't re-login.

4.3 installed. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ml#post5216636

schmatzler · 08-08-2014, 08:36 AM

A user on the Skype forums seems to have found a solution for the old version.

Quote:

It's very simple:

Login with the new version end mark the option "login when skype starts".

Close the new version and startup the old one.

Now you will be able to use the olde one without first logging in.

juboba · 09-08-2014, 05:34 PM

Check it out:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-a-4175517905/