[ale] Skype calls?

[Boris Borisov]

I've tried older version of skype 2.xx and 4.1 and I cannot login anymore.
They may have changed things around. And there is no static build anymore
so installing skype require additional luggage.

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 7:12 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> There is a 4.3 version under downloads on skype.com. It's only 32-bit so
> a pure x86_64 bit system will have to load a small pile of stuff to run it.
>
> The last time I installed it on Fedora 21 for the wife, I downloaded the
> skype-i586.rpm file and ran yum localinstall skype... and it grabbed almost
> all the stuff that was needed to make it run. I think the video stuff was
> what I had to install separately (v4l packages).
>
> On Fri, 2015-09-11 at 18:56 -0400, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>
> On 09/11/2015 05:50 PM, leam hall wrote:
>
>
> I cheated; we had bought a used Mac with dual boot into Winderz, so I fired
> it up and installed Skype.
>
> I appreciate all the help. Sadly, Skype is one place MS doesn't want to
> support Linux.
>
>
>
>
> I vaguely remember having to run an old version of skype to make
> anything work.  Found an old backup skype_static-2.0.0.72-oss.tar.gz
> don't know if it works - it was pre-MSFT.
>
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