skype or getSkype in 5.x please.

[coreplayer2]

sound also works using Alsa, though the default option was not correct.  After selecting the correct S/PDIF ouput Skype sound test functioned properly

[rvsmith]

Thanks for adding to 5.x +all the other replies. I'd given up and carried on in TC 4.x but now the much publicised blocking of old skype versions probably renders all this redundant, no version of skype-static works and we have to wrestle with skype 4.3 for named distros. I have found that Ubuntu debs convert to tcz most successfully, now just have to get pulseaudio working but thats a whole other topic. I'll try *that* in TC 5.x.

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[rvsmith]

Sorry to be a PITA but tried Skype in in TC 5.0 now and we are missing some qt-4 libs:

libQtDBus.so.4 - not found
libQtWebKit.so.4 - not found
libQtGui.so.4 - provided by qt-4.x-base
libQtCore.so.4 - provided by qt-4.x-base
libQtNetwork.so.4 - provided by qt-4.x-base
libQtXml.so.4 - provided by qt-4.x-xml

I have tried using the old 4.x repo versions but then it complains ...

Fatal: Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (version 0x40704) with this library (version 0x40805)

Any chance of qt-4.x-dbus and qt-4.x-webkit compiles for TC 5.x?

[rvsmith]

In case anyone is interested I got the Ubuntu release of Skype 4.3 working on TC4.x. Needs the qt-4 libs (see prev post). To get sound via pulseaudio working I found the following works:

in /opt/bootsync.sh:
/usr/local/etc/init.d/dbus start

in ~/.X.d create a script called skype containing:
dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session
start-pulseaudio-x11
skype & 2>/tmp/skype.log

Those things all need to happen in the right order.

They are horribly big apps, skype takes 24% of my RAM (more than firefox) and pulse another 5% (more than Xvesa). Ruins the minimalist setup that makes TC so great in the first place.