How to use Skype 4.2 on SliTaz (was SOLVED for a limited time)

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How to use Skype 4.2 on SliTaz (was SOLVED for a limited time)

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Started 10 years ago by Aleksej
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I used your method to the letter, Aleksej.
But Skype simply won't let me connect. It just says "Skype can't connect"...

Posted 10 years ago #
K3nn3th

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Same here. worked like a charm when i last used it last week, cant connect anymore right now.
any tricks/workaround about yet?

Posted 10 years ago #
christophe

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Not sure why you would want to do that.
Pulseaudio is available in the repo (at least it is for RC2).
Once you have installed pulseaudio latest version of skype should work right away with zero effort.

Posted 10 years ago #
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Sadly, christophe is right. There's just no way you can make the old Skype 4.2 work anymore.

I got the latest version to work although I don't like it but... meh. It gets the job done.

First - get pulseaudio (you find it in tazpanel)
Then go here: http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-linux/downloading/?type=ubuntu64
(just download that file regardless if you use 32-bit or 64-bit. I use 32-bit but it still worked)

Download the file. Then go to the location where you download the file and execute the command "tazpkg convert skype-ubuntu-precise_4.3.0.37-1_i386.deb" (and then wait)

Once the installer is created - launch it and click install. And... that's it since you already should have your hosts file edited.

It will bring you to the latest Skype version and it should work (it works like a charm on my end).

I should note that I use the "Cooking" version (the 42MB ISO).

Posted 10 years ago #
K3nn3th

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same here.

didnt work couple months ago, now it does.

@Lucian-V: looks like you did get the 32-bit version, though ;) (according to the "i386" in the filename)

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@K3nn3th - indeed you are correct. It was roughly 4 A.M. in my area just a little after Christmas and a bit dizzy when I posted that.

Still, the solution works - I have in the meantime tested it on a 64-bit box and had no issues whatsoever with it.

This issue occurred mecause Microsoft really wants to ditch all the older versions so the loopholes allowing folks to use older versions are rapidly closing.

I think this topic should be closed.

Happy New Year everyone!

Posted 10 years ago #
K3nn3th

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skype 4.3 is working, but it wont recognise my audio hardware (which worked in 4.2), i get "Virtual device" in every list

does anyone have the same trouble?
any solution?

Posted 10 years ago #
Anonymous

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You mean it doesn't recognize your sound card or your special USB microphone/camera?

My camera is Mircosoft so I won't even try to make it work on SliTaz (not in the next few months at least since I don't have the time) -> but my audio and the microphone from my headphones (which fits straight into the sound card) works like a charm.

You don't even get audio output, K3nn3th (e.g. when you call Echo)?

Posted 10 years ago #
K3nn3th

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@Lucian-V: i mean my soundcard, i dont use any external USB hardware with skype.

my camera works, but no audio.

in skype 4.2, it wouldnt show "Virtual Device" in the hardware selection drop-down, but the actual name of the hardware.
in 4.3, i cant choose from anything else but "Virtual Device". Test Call and sound test wont give me any output.

EDIT:i have a feeling it has something to do with pulseaudio.. i get an error when trying to start it.

$ pulseaudio --start
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.

not a very informative error message -.-

Posted 10 years ago #
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Hmmm... for some reason it stopped working on my end as well. Except I get:

pulseaudio --start
W: [pulseaudio] main.c: This program is not intended to be run as root (unless --system is specified).
W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to open cookie file '/root/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory
W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to load authorization key '/root/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory
W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to open cookie file '/root/.pulse-cookie': No such file or directory
W: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed to load authorization key '/root/.pulse-cookie': No such file or directory
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.

Hmmm...
But after a reboot it worked again.

Apparently there is indeed a pulseaudio issue (many Linux users on all distros have complained).
Also, whilst on my main computer Skype does seem to work, I have so far been unable to make any other computers in my home to work with Skype (neither on SliTaz, nor on Linux Mint - my previous favorite Linux distro).

The whole issue seems to come from the fact that Microsoft dropped all the support for ALSA and only uses pulseaudio (which is moronic to say the least, but anyway).

Now I also have the question why is it working on this computer and not anywhere else.

Hmm... further research is needed (which I'll do, today).

If I get to a satisfactory result, I'll post a new thread.

Posted 10 years ago #
K3nn3th

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@Lucian-V: that'd be great... thanks!

I get the same error as you when i run pulseaudio as root.

just for the record, I'm running a frugal-install (yay!), just in case it has anything to do with that

Posted 10 years ago #
K3nn3th

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*bump*

@Luciano-V: any success with the configuration?

I cant get it to work, it'd be great if someone could try/report somewhat

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K3nn3th - I've tried the solution on 5 different machines (3 PCs and 2 laptops).

It worked on one of the laptops and one of the PCs. And I still don't know why, so I avoided reporting it in a thread until I have a definite solution.

Essentially, what I did was to remove anything related to ALSA (except ALSA Player) and then install only pulse audio after full reboot. This worked on 2 of 5 computers.

Then I started to try to trick pulseaudio into using ALSA settings while keeping Skype believing it's using pulseaudio. This gotten me an even worse result - I got it running only on one of 5 computers.

So yeah... it's gonna take me some more time until I figure it out.

I didn't forget about it, it's just that the damn thing is far more complicated than I imagined. Besides, I've been flooded with writing requests lately so I've been busy - mind you, I'm not a Linux dev, it's just Linux is an older passion of mine :)

When I'll have a solution (and I'll be working on that) - I'll post it. If someone else does it before me, then even better.

Cheers.

P.S.: You can try what I tried as well and see - maybe you are amongst the lucky ones and my highly imperfect sollutions happen to work on your machine(s).

Posted 10 years ago #
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Use skype 4.3.0.37 with pulseaudio:
http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/issue-with-pulseaudio#post-37164

Slitaz-4.0 : http://download.tuxfamily.org/slitaz/packages/backports/pulseaudio-5.0.tazpkg
Slitaz-5.0 : http://download.tuxfamily.org/slitaz/packages/5.0/pulseaudio-5.0.tazpkg

Posted 10 years ago #
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Plugging a mic into my motherboards sound card didn't work until I toggled on/raised capture level:
Open alsamixer, F5 key, right arrow to scroll to capture, use space bar to toggle on/off:
Toggle Capture(red) on raise Capture level with up arrow key

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