<div dir="ltr">For months after I upgraded, I could not get Skype to work.<br><br>But, now it is installed, as evidenced by:<br><br># dpkg -l | grep skype<br>ii skype 4.2.0.11-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 client for Skype VOIP and instant messaging service<br>
ii skype-bin:i386 4.2.0.11-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 client for Skype VOIP and instant messaging service - binary files<br><br>And:<br># arch<br>x86_64<br><br>Here are the commands I used to get it to installed, from my shell history:<br>
<br>aptitude install skype (lots of dependencies and conflicts)<br>apt-get install skype (works)<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:31 PM, unsolicited <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca" target="_blank">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">[THANK YOU KHALID! But no joy - same thing. And this was even with treat recommends as required turned off, in aptitude when I tried before.]<br>
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Let us know how it goes (Linux / Hangouts) please.<br>
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I've only barely poked my finger in Hangouts, once, windows. Not Linux yet.<br>
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But I have been playing with quite a number of sip softphones, both Linux and Windows, recently. Linux seems to consistently do better than Windows, strangely, but all have been rather ... broken.<br>
(And Win XP better than Win 7, even.)<br>
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[Strange only in that device wise Windows has often been more solid than Linux. Not this time. Software wise it's not strange that Linux does better.]<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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On 13-09-25 02:03 PM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:<br>
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I hate Skype for no other reason that the amount of spam I get with it.<br>
Everyday there's some hot girl from some country I've never heard of<br>
begging to be my friend. I know some of you guys get this in real life all<br>
the time, but in Skype it's annoying!<br>
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So I welcome a replacement for Skype.<br>
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Installing the Hangout extensions now, thanks for pointing them out.<br>
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On 25 September 2013 13:44, unsolicited<<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca" target="_blank">unsolicited@swiz.<u></u>ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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Google talk (xabber) notifications have now been showing up in Hangouts on<br>
my Android phone.<br>
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I see in Chrome (extension and app) that Hangouts can now call landlines.<br>
(A for fee service with Skype.)<br>
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Has Hangouts become a Skype killer?<br>
(Have never been able to install Skype on my 64-bit Kubuntu 12.04 LTS - it<br>
wants to add a zillion i386 packages / remove a bunch of current ones. I'm<br>
hoping my next install, probably SuSe will avoid that. Thus has Google /<br>
Chrome / Hangouts become more ubiquitous than Skype?)<br>
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Does YouTube and Hangouts now overlap? To what extent?<br>
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Not suggesting it be used for kwlug meetings, but it seems that people are<br>
using Hangouts for meetings / presentations, not just video calls.<br>
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Convergence?<br>
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(Avoidance of Skype / MS / 3rd party on ChromeBooks?)<br>
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