Comments on: Install Skype 2.0 on Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex”

By: Toki

Toki — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:22:30 +0000

I am trying to install skype on ubuntu 8.10 then it needs an administrative password. what is that?

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:55:41 +0000

I just installed Skype on my machine, a 64-bit Intel (Sys76) and it all works great BUT Skype adds a UK style ring on top of the actual when calling a land or cell phone. The callee picks up, but the UK ring keeps going. Needless to say, a constant BRRANG BRRANG on the line makes for amazingly short conversations. Any ideas, anyone?

By: novalee

novalee — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:32:22 +0000

Dean, Thx for the suggestions. I'm totally new to ubuntu…can you explain the following a little more, "enable and turn up the capture volumes on Kmix". I'm not quite sure of the steps to do this. Is this like going into control panel in xp?

By: dean

dean — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:49:28 +0000

I got skype to work with little problem. Two easy steps:

1) install through medibuntu as mentioned above;

2) enable and turn up the capture volumes on Kmix

Works like a charm.

By: kikipremier

kikipremier — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:26:34 +0000

i have ubuntu intrepide on dual boot with wxp

i am trying intall
skype_debian_2.0.0.72-1_1386.deb
i have error message

error : wrong architecture i386

can you help me !!!

By: kasper

kasper — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:49:33 +0000

SirronTM i have the same problem, dit you get it fixts

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:23:09 +0000

I solved the panel issue mentioned above. Somehow my notification got turned off. I have now made video-chat calls across the country and it all works great. One minor bug is the notification for an incoming call does not work. Oddly all the others work OK. I finally added a ‘run command on event’ action, command line: “/usr/bin/play /usr/share/skype/sounds/CallRingingIn.wav”. It now works.
I love it! My Logitech quckcam S5500 has excellent quality and sound input mic.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:33:00 +0000

I had problems with medibuntu 64bit on Interpid. I now have good sound using pulse for sound out, and I use logitech quickcam s5500 for video and audio in. I set sound in to the USB ID of cam.

Now the problem I have is if I exit skype, it no longer shows in the task panel, so I have to su and kill the skype.real process before starting it back up — a real pain. At one point it worked. Beside that sound and video are working good now. I wish I could get it back up in task bar when I exit.

By: TorrentResident

TorrentResident — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:57:50 +0000

Hi all,

I am a newbie to Linux altogether… I just downloaded Skype from their official site. The link was named as Ubuntu 7.04-8.04. I have Ubuntu 8.10 installed. After I finished downloading, i tried installing the software. I got an error message saying that ‘your system has broken dependencies. This application cannot continue until this is fixed. To fix it run ‘sudo synaptic’ or ‘sudo apt-get install -f’ in a terminal window’.

I tried the sudo synaptic, but could not figure what is to be done. Please help me with it.

Thanks.

By: Gee

Gee — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:38:35 +0000

Im new to ubuntu,have 8.10 and can’t get audio for skype,what the hell is wrong? i’ve been at this for hours.