This software is 4 years old! I cannot even send an SMS with this version of Skype!
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Why is LMDE still using Skype v2.1?
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Why is LMDE still using Skype v2.1?
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Re: Why is LMDE still using Skype v2.1?
I think because Debian testing repository is in feature freeze due to preparation for Debian 7 release. Debian PTS seems to confirm that: http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pidgin-skype.html. Hence no newer version is available in LMDE yet, I think.
Edit: doh! I looked at the wrong package Ignore my post... zerozero has the info on this one...
Edit: doh! I looked at the wrong package Ignore my post... zerozero has the info on this one...
Re: Why is LMDE still using Skype v2.1?
but ... there's no skype packaged in debian and lmde stop supplying the mint version of skype some time ago
the question is: why you have skype 2.x in your installation?
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zerozero@deb-kde ~/Documents $ apt policy skype
skype:i386:
Installed: 4.1.0.20-1
Candidate: 4.1.0.20-1
Version table:
*** 4.1.0.20-1 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Re: Why is LMDE still using Skype v2.1?
Because somewhere in the jungle of this forum, when asking for "skype on Linux Mint", I found a posting that said: Include the following line in your sources list:
Now I have
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deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free
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ziegler@nc10:~$ LANG=C apt policy skype
skype:
Installed: 2.1.0.81-1
Candidate: 2.1.0.81-1
Version table:
*** 2.1.0.81-1 0
500 http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable/non-free i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ziegler@nc10:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://lmde-mirror-fr-1.wedrop.it/latest testing main contrib non-free
deb http://lmde-mirror-fr-1.wedrop.it/latest/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://lmde-mirror-fr-1.wedrop.it/latest/multimedia testing main non-free
deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free
Re: Why is LMDE still using Skype v2.1?
well, that was either an old or outdated post;
skype moved to multiarch, so you must first go through this http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 0&t=122296 and then download skype from here
http://beta.skype.com/en/download-skype ... e=debian32 (debian32bit)
skype moved to multiarch, so you must first go through this http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 0&t=122296 and then download skype from here
http://beta.skype.com/en/download-skype ... e=debian32 (debian32bit)
Re: Why is LMDE still using Skype v2.1?
I needed libqtwebkit4:i386 to upgrade from 2.x.
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$ apt-cache depends skype
skype:i386
Depends: libasound2:i386
Depends: libc6:i386
Depends: libc6:i386
Depends: libgcc1:i386
Depends: libqt4-dbus:i386
Depends: libqt4-network:i386
Depends: libqt4-xml:i386
Depends: libqtcore4:i386
Depends: libqtgui4:i386
Depends: libqtwebkit4:i386
Depends: libstdc++6:i386
Depends: libx11-6:i386
Depends: libxext6:i386
Depends: libxss1:i386
Depends: libxv1:i386
Depends: libssl1.0.0:i386