Skype for EasyOS

[Wac]

I am using Easy Pyro64 1.2.7, and like always I only have problems installing Skype, a program from the most anti-opensource company in the world.

I tried doing this with the newest deb. file from Skype's website, without any success. Unfortunately I need it on my PC, because everyone else uses it.

Had anyone created a SFS file yet to install it?

[BarryK]

All EasyOS questions should be posted to this forum thread:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... start=1935

To avoid confusion with the mainstream pups and other derivatives.

[ndujoe1]

I don't know your browser selection, but I use the Web browser version of Skype

web.skype.com as an alternative. on Bionicpup64 with Google Chrome.

[BarryK]

Note about SFSs, those designed for the pups will not work in EasyOS. What you have to do is extract an SFS to a folder, then run 'dir2sfs' in EasyOS.

If you look at some of the comments in 'dir2sfs' script, there is useful information.

To convert an SFS to a folder, if you click on it, then copy the contents to a folder. The folder is supposed to be named in format name_version_arch, for example firefox_60.8_amd64

There are Skype SFSs for Puppy, but I haven't converted any of them to Easy SFS format, so don't know if they work.

One thing to be careful about if converting an SFS, /usr/lib64 is a symlink in Easy Pyro, not a folder, so an SFS must also have /usr/lib64 as a symlink.