skype needs to be reinstalled alot

[coisoVislab]

hello everyone,

i keep facing this same issue with skype regarding its app launch. Most of the times, if i don't manually close skype before rebooting and/or shutdown, the next time i try to launch it it simply does nothing. The work-around for me is to remove skype a install it again. Does anyone know a fix for my problem ?

Thank you

[passerby]

As in, you hit the launcher and it does nothing?
What happens if you try to launch skype from the terminal?
(just open a terminal and enter "skype")

[coisoVislab]

the launcher does nothing and from the terminal i get this error message "Fatal: QWidget: Must construct a QApplication before a QPaintDevice Aborted".

I have no idea how to fix this :\

[passerby]

Then google is your friend http://www.cesareriva.com/archives/1199

From the terminal run:

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sudo apt-get purge --remove skype-bin*
sudo pluma /etc/prelink.conf

add "-b /usr/bin/skype" to the open document, without the quotation marks.

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sudo apt-get install skype
sudo ldconfig