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julcar:
Well, first trouble fixed with help of this post: http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,21919.msg141607.html#msg141607

second trouble still...

running sudo skypeforlinux on console does nothing

Juanito:
gconf has been depreciated in favour of dconf for years - you must have chosen an old version of skype.

desktop files go in /usr/local/share/applications - it would be a good idea to check the "exec" line in skype.desktop to see how skype should be started.

Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I would have thought it would be easier to get the most recent version of skype for linux from the skype website and install that?

Juanito:
Hmm - I got hold of what looks to be the latest skypeforlinux (8.x) and, although it depends on gtk3, it also depends on gconf.

Since gconf is from gnome-2.x, it looks like this has been done specifcally to make things difficult for linux users...

julcar:

--- Quote from: Juanito on April 30, 2019, 06:45:18 AM ---gconf has been depreciated in favour of dconf for years - you must have chosen an old version of skype.

desktop files go in /usr/local/share/applications - it would be a good idea to check the "exec" line in skype.desktop to see how skype should be started.

Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I would have thought it would be easier to get the most recent version of skype for linux from the skype website and install that?

--- End quote ---

You can be sure that I am using the latest skype binary from skype website.

here is the extract from skypeforlinux.desktop


--- Code: ---[Desktop Entry]
Name=Skype
Comment=Skype Internet Telephony
Exec=/usr/bin/skypeforlinux %U
Icon=skypeforlinux
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=Skype
Encoding=UTF-8
Categories=Network;Application;
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/skype;
X-KDE-Protocols=skype
Actions=QuitSkype;

--- End code ---

and here is what looks the launcher script in /usr/bin


--- Code: ---#!/bin/sh

SCRIPT=$(readlink -f "$0")
USR_DIRECTORY=$(readlink -f $(dirname $SCRIPT)/..)

SKYPE_PATH="$USR_DIRECTORY/share/skypeforlinux/skypeforlinux"
SKYPE_LOGS="$HOME/.config/skypeforlinux/logs"

mkdir -p $SKYPE_LOGS

nohup "$SKYPE_PATH" --executed-from="$(pwd)" --pid=$$ "$@" > "$SKYPE_LOGS/skype-startup.log" 2>&1 &

--- End code ---

andyj:
I made a copy of gconf for TCL 8.x a while back to get chrome working. You can try this one: http://www.asjohnson.com/tinycorelinux/8.x/x86_64/test/GConf.tcz

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