[clug] Skype on Ubuntu

Rob Weir rweir at ertius.org
Wed Sep 28 08:34:51 GMT 2005


On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 05:40:53PM +1000, Tony and Robyn Lewis said
> Ambrose Andrews wrote:
> 
> >http://www.ubuntuguide.org/#skype
> >
> >seems to work on hoary with ubuntu's QT.
> > 
> >
> Yes, works for Hoary.  Sorry, didn't mention he's trying to get this 
> working on Breezy.
> 
> Apart from the free/non-free/anal-probe arguments (it's not *me* using 
> Skype, promise), any comments about how to wrangle the dependencies 
> permanently into shape?

Just get the statically-linked tarball and unpack it as
/usr/local/skype/ or something.

-rob

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