Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2008 #118
> > Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:29:16 +0000
> From: "Benjamin M. A'Lee" <bma+lists@subvert.org.uk>
> To: "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" <bg271828@yahoo.com>
> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Installing Skype 2 on Lenny?
>
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 07:03:06PM -0800, 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".)
>
> Yes, the package works on Lenny. It depends on
> libqt4-core and
> libqt4-gui; if you install it, Synaptic (or anything
> else) should list
> it as "Broken" and offer to install the dependencies
> for you.
>
> > Or is there a real repository i can add to my
> > sources.list?
> > Id rather just do this with Synaptic instead of
> > manually.
>
> None that I know of, unfortunately.
Thanks! That was easier then i thought, though i would
rather have used Synaptic.
Then i had to figure out how to make my microphone
work, which was harder then i thought, but i got it
in the end.
Thank you!
Jen
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