On Friday 05 Sep 2014 10:23:11 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Terry, > > > I remember the last time Skype broke, someone told me how to > > roll-back, but I've had a hard disc failure since then and some of my > > archived messages got lost. ;-( The list archive doesn't seem to > > allow searching. :-( ;-( > > There's other archives apart from the official (crude) Mailman one, e.g. > http://search.gmane.org/search.php?group=gmane.user-groups.linux.uk.dorset&q > uery=terry+coles+skype
That's quite a neat search tool :-) Anyway, I found the reference from April last year and guess what? It was you who told me what to do Ralph :-) Here is what you said at the time: >> You're probably getting the package from >> http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/pool/partner/s/skype/. You could >> uninstall skype in the normal way, skype-bin should go too, then >> download a skype .deb and matching skype-bin .deb from there to a new >> directory and try installing them with >> sudo dpkg -i skype*.deb >> All at your own risk, naturally. :-) I tried that, but dpkg through a wobbly and barfed when it tried to instal V 4.2.0.11 of skype-bin and fell back on installing V 4.3.0.37 (the broken one). After a bit of fiddling, I was able to install skype-bin using the the Package Installer, but not skype. I then noticed that the download for skype is 15.7 kB, whereas skype-bin is 16.2 MB, so I ran Skype and it seems to work !!! Thanks again Ralph. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-10-07 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
