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Re: Installing Skype 2 on Lenny?



On Sat January 12 2008, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> How do i install Skype 2 on Lenny? (I need Skype 2 for
>
> the video chat.)
>
> I cant find any packages in the usual debian
> repositorys,
> and the one on the Skype site is only for Etch. Will
> it
> work OK? (And if it does, silly question: whats the
> name
> for the QT4 package? I use Gnome. There were a bunch
> of
> QT4 packages for design, devel, etc. but no plain
> "this
> is the QT4 base package".)
>
> Or is there a real repository i can add to my
> sources.list?
> Id rather just do this with Synaptic instead of
> manually.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jen

Skype stable release can be apt-got from here :

deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free

However to get video you might have to install the beta version which AFAIK is 
not available through their Debian repos.

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