Re: Why no Skype packages?

To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Why no Skype packages?
From: Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:48:12 +0100
Message-id: <[🔎] 200903301048.12638.lisi.reisz@gmail.com>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 359a3c580903291547n25de446cj700ffc7007049dfb@mail.gmail.com>
References: <[🔎] 20090329182426.457acf4f@teksavvy.com> <[🔎] 359a3c580903291547n25de446cj700ffc7007049dfb@mail.gmail.com>

On Sunday 29 March 2009 23:47:33 David Fox wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 3:24 PM, JoeHill <joehill@teksavvy.com> wrote:
> > Was just looking at all the 'how to install Skype' pages, and wondering
> > why, as far as I can tell, there are no Debian packages. Is this a
> > licensing issue?

There is a Debian package, and I can vouch that it works in Lenny.  It is not, 
however, in the official repositories and is supplied by Skype.  If, in spite 
of this, you want to use it, just add  the following to your sources.list:

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

Then:
aptitude update
aptitude install skype

HTH
Lisi

Reply to:

References:
- Why no Skype packages?
  - From: JoeHill <joehill@teksavvy.com>
- Re: Why no Skype packages?
  - From: David Fox <dfox94085@gmail.com>

Prev by Date: Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?
Next by Date: [offtopic] screen capture using opengl
Previous by thread: Re: Why no Skype packages?
Next by thread: Re: Why no Skype packages?
Index(es):
- Date
- Thread