Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Lenny · Joined: 24 Aug 2012 Posts: 2

hi im newbie, the icon does not run, it says that just work for a regular file...
plz what im missing here?

Thanks
Lenny

OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 354 Location: London, England

If you download Skype (for Linux) from the skype.com website it will now give you version 4 which won't work with some (especially older) Puppies.

Not sure if the older versions of Skype remain available from the website. I think they try to force people to use the latest.

In the case of older Puppies (and even the current Wary 5.3) you stand a better chance with version 2.2.0.35 which was the current one for some time until recently, but you may need to get that from this forum as a .pet or a .sfs rather than using the method described in Post 1 of this thread.

666philb · Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 1263 Location: wales

hi lenny

you could try this older version of skype http://www.mediafire.com/file/76f990w6acm95bj/skype_static-2.1.0.47.pet

chapchap70 · Joined: 18 Nov 2010 Posts: 25

Just installed version 4 on slacko 5.33 and everything worked right away with no modifications. I could never get my cameras working with Skype 2xx without doing things like installing vlc, etc.

fefifofum · Joined: 06 Apr 2013 Posts: 6

This fixed my skype and mic issue. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=700684#700684

mama21mama · Posted: Sun 28 Apr 2013, 12:40 Post_subject:

old puppy:. skype_static-2.2.0.25.pet
new puppy:. skype_4.1.0.2.pet +dep qt4.4.8.2.pet

luck