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OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 967 Location: London, England

WARNING
AS FROM THE BEGINNING OF AUGUST 2014 THESE PACKAGES AND ALL OTHER EARLIER SKYPE FOR LINUX VERSIONS MAY NOT WORK.
Skype is owned by Microsoft and they have changed the core system. You will probably find that you can't log in any more. They have released a new Skype for Linux but it is compiled without alsa support and needs pulseaudio for the sound. Puppy does not have pulseaudio. Some members of the Puppy community are looking at workarounds for this. See here:-
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=94807
Otherwise I suggest that people complain to the Microsoft / Skype developers and request that they release a version with alsa enabled.
Another good suggestion is to tell everybody to use a SIP softphone such as Linphone for communication over internet instead.

I took various different builds from the Skype website and combined them with the most suitable dependency libraries to create these experimental "standalone" versions which should be optimized for various different Puppies. The libs are placed in a private directory to avoid clashes and conflicts. Tested and all seem good here but no warranty. Uploaded for testing and comments, take the usual precautions if installing.

UPDATE:-
Version 4.2.0.13 is now out so I made some packages along the same lines.
They are here:-
http://smokey01.com/OscarTalks

Read below for descriptions of the mixtures of Skype versions and dependency libraries.

Debian Wheezy Skype with official Debian Wheezy libs.

Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) Skype with official Ubuntu Lucid libs. I note that the Skype website specifies Qt 4.7 whereas these are 4.6.2 but maybe this is OK for the Lucid build.

Dynamic Linux Skype with Pemasu's Exprimo libs.

Ubuntu Precise (12.04) Skype with Pemasu's Precise libs.

Dynamic Linux Skype with 01micko's Slacko 14.0 libs.

Same as Exprimo but with added Debian Squeeze libstdc++ private upgrade. I named it as "Racy", works in Racy 5.5 out of the box and also in Wary 5.5 if you install D-Bus from PPM (and reboot).

redandwhitestripes · Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 124

Tried the experimo files on Precise Pup and so far (*knock on wood*) it has proven to be stable and I even got Skype Call Recorder to detect it! Thank you so much.

slenkar · Joined: 10 Jul 2009 Posts: 216

thanks!

RickGT351 · Posted: Thu 07 Nov 2013, 20:21 Post subject:

Thanks OscarTalks. Downloaded the sfs and it works fine

Geoffrey · Joined: 30 May 2010 Posts: 1593 Location: Queensland

Works well, I also repackaged the Racy sfs for Carolina, thanks. Smile

bruno · Joined: 08 Mar 2012 Posts: 74 Location: Belgium

Works great on Dpup Wheezy 3.5.2.7 Smile

sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 5045 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

Hi Oscar; DataFileHost.com has a usless url also. Can we get your stuff uploaded elsewhere?

Ally ( I think he`s in the U.S.) has a site, and there`s Smokey in the land down under.

greengeek · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 2887 Location: New Zealand

koulaxizis · Joined: 17 Jul 2011 Posts: 428 Location: Greece

I tried the Slacko version, works great, thank you!! Smile

Added to wiki: http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Skype

OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 967 Location: London, England

sunburnt,
The original idea was to phase out DataFileHost and use Yandex Disk instead, but I am on the lookout for other options. Tried a couple of free host sites but neither seemed to work at all which was frustrating. Might give e-nautia a try if you think it is OK but some of these sites have daily usage limitations and stuff like that.

Meantime maybe we can ask ally to upload a copy of any package that interests you. I do speak to Smokey now and again but am reluctant to ask for space in my name. I am not sure how much capacity he has available and also I consider myself more of a student and experimenter than a "dev". Maybe we could ask him to upload a few packages to his public smokey01.com/menu area if you think it will help.

greengeek,
I believe the Precise version is OK in Upup Raring.
The "ducking" of incoming audio when you speak is probably an effect of the echo-cancellation / voice-activation mechanism. Really they should have an option to enable / disable that feature as it is not needed if you are wearing headphones, but is important for those people who try to use Skype via the speakers.

koulaxizis · Joined: 17 Jul 2011 Posts: 428 Location: Greece

greengeek · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 2887 Location: New Zealand

OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 967 Location: London, England

koulaxizis,
Thanks for the suggestion. I signed up via your referral link and have uploaded some packages including the Skype ones so people can give it a try.
This is the link:-
https://copy.com/sjFkyXjQKUgb

sunburnt,
The download links for the packages remain unscrambled I think, although they are https and not http
I am able to download with wget using

sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 5045 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

Hi guys; My main thought here is to have at least a few world wide mirror sites for Puppy.

It`s far better to have a few "well posted" sites than everybody have dozens of their own.
# AND... New generations of Puppies will be able to use these sites for PPM repositories.
The PPMs could get package info from the sites and produce a list of pkgs. and types.

Smokey`s down under, and Ally`s in the U.S. ( I think...), and MU`s in Germany ( if still there...).

This would cover most of the world`s main continents.
Only Asia and South America left. But Germany and Australia are very close.

Oscar; The Copy site links look good. I`ll make some tests and let you know.
Suggestion: I think putting SFS and PET packages in separate dirs. would be good. Your call...

koulaxizis · Joined: 17 Jul 2011 Posts: 428 Location: Greece