Re: can't install skype 4.3 on jessie
Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> writes:
> Am Sonntag, 11. Januar 2015, 12:18:16 schrieb David Zelinsky:
>> Since Skype 4.2 stopped working, I've been trying unsuccessfully to
>> install 4.3 on my amd64 laptop running jessie. The problem seems to be
>> a dependency on libmp3lame0:i386, which has some issue with conflicting
>> versions numbers between the :amd64 and :i386 architectures. But maybe
>> I'm not understanding something. Anyway, how can I get around this and
>> get Skype to work?
>>
>
> Before you upgrade to skype-4.3, please note, it needs pulseaudio! If you do
> not want to install pulseaudio, then use my workaround, I described here in
> this forum.
Thanks for the suggestion. Assuming you mean this workaround (which you
posted in August):
- Install the 4.2 package.
- start a hexeditor and open the file /usr/bin/skype
- search for "4.2.0.11" and change this to "4.3.0.37"
- save the file
- restart skype and
- voila! It is now connecting to the server again!
I tried this, but Skype would still not connect. Does it still work for
you? Maybe they've got wise to this and now check something else? I
also found a string "/contentbundle/linux-4.2.0.0-2374.bin" and changed
"/contentbundle/linux-4.3.0.0-3390.bin", which is what I found in the
4.3 binary. Still doesn't connect (:
-David
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