Skype and Ubuntu Breezy Badger
Submitted by mhulboj on Tue, 2005-10-18 19:48.
Today something told me to upgrade my Skype installation to the new version. Done it in usual way:
Instead of nice messages telling that everything installed successfully I got the error about unmet dependencies concerning libqt3c102-mt. But that package was a transitional package replaced by libqt3-mt which I had installed on my system. So it was enough to tweak a bit the control in the deb package:
Now I have the latest Skype and had refreshed a bit the knowledge about dpkg.
wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-deb
dpkg -i skype_1.2.0.17-1_i386.deb
Instead of nice messages telling that everything installed successfully I got the error about unmet dependencies concerning libqt3c102-mt. But that package was a transitional package replaced by libqt3-mt which I had installed on my system. So it was enough to tweak a bit the control in the deb package:
Replace libqt3c102-mt with libqt3-mt and continue:
mkdir skype
dpkg-deb --extract skype_1.2.0.17-1_i386.deb skype
dpkg-deb --control skype_1.2.0.17-1_i386.deb skype/DEBIAN
vi skype/DEBIAN/control
dpkg --build skype
dpkg -i skype.deb
Now I have the latest Skype and had refreshed a bit the knowledge about dpkg.
dpkg -b skype/ skype.deb
BTW, why is Skype loaded so slow?
As for the startup speed it is really awful. Startup time is slower than for example OpenOffice2... which means that it is really slow. I am not sure whether it was the case with the previous version, but under windows it's much faster.
And also experience very slow start times (its not using cpu, what is it doing..) and a lockup on ending (the process never terminates..)
I have also experienced problems with terminating the process itself and also releasing of the audio device when ending the calls. But still, I won't boot windows just to use skype...
avoid terminating a call in Skype under Linux
If you terminate the call, you always get an error on the next one. If the call terminates itself, you can always place another call. (This is the case with echo123.) When calling a phone with Skype Out, it is likely that the other party hangs down after the call. Sometimes Skype then detects the call being terminated. In this case, no problem, you can place another call. If Skype does not detect the call being terminated, the call goes on and on and you end up terminating it yourself (with the red button for example). This is the case were the sound problem arises.
So the workaround for people who have not (yet) used a more sophisticated one, or do not dare do so: avoid as much as possible terminating a call yourself. Always wait a while to see if it does not terminate by itself. If it does, no problem. If it doesn't, then, and only then, you have to completely close and restart Skype.
More information on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SkypeHowto
Thank you, I was just
All (or most) of the
All (or most) of the problems seem to be gone when using new version of Skype - 1.3 beta. Under dapper there is no necessity to do wild tricks with repackaging.
In addition to that sound handling is better and no need to restart skype every few calls - it no longer blocks the audio device (and uses ALSA now).
And the startup time has increased significantly...
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