Hi All,
just to let you know Skype 4.3 has been released and it fixes the pulse audio latency issue and seems to work just fine. Note that direct ALSA support has been dropped.
See here for details
http://blogs.skype.com/2014/06/18/skype-4-3-for-linux/
“If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I’ve won.”
Linus Torvalds
I installed it a day ago (http://software.opensuse.org/package/skype), it works fine here.
Why download it from the software page instead of the skype website ?
On 2014-06-21 17:06, cra1g321 wrote:
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> ezio84;2650002 Wrote:
>> I installed it a day ago (http://software.opensuse.org/package/skype),
>> it works fine here.
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> Why download it from the software page instead of the skype website ?
Humm.
Speculating.
It is a home repo. It is possible that when Novell sees it, it gets
removed. It is proprietary software, and the license has to allow
redistribution. I don’t know if it does, so the legal team would have to
check it.
A reason for having that rpm on openSUSE could be correcting errors in
the spec so that dependencies for the current openSUSE releases are
correct., considering than the official one says it is designed for
openSUSE 12.1, which no longer exists.
I have downloaded both, and the /etc tree is different. The /usr tree
also has differences. I don’t know the implications of those changes,
but there are some.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
The site may say 12.1 but it works fine with newer version of openSUSE.
I think they just haven’t been bothered to update the drop-down menu.
There was a 32bit pulse package that needed to be manually installed but i don’t know if this is still the case for the new version of skype on 13.1.
I saw “opensuse 12.1” only and i searched for the package on the opensuse.org website, now i reinstalled it from the skype website and it works fine too.
Good news …
Thanks for the informations …