After upgrading your desktop or laptop to Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx you may experience the following symptoms:
- Reduction in audio quality (jittery calls)
- Crashing after receiving an Instant Message
- Crashing when trying to send an Instant Message
- Slow program functionality
All of the above issues can be resolved by removing Skype and ensuring that the newest version is installed (2.1.0.81 at time of writing)
Skype can be downloaded here.
Upgraded from 2.0.0.72 to 2.1.0.81, after upgrading from Ubuntu Jaunty to Lucid. I have to start it using a workaround for GLX/Cairo-dock (export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 && skype), and it works great. I refuse to use pulseaudio, so I am using ESD and ALSA. Audio and video are both very crisp. Thank you for continuing to improve on Skype for Linux. It is truly the only thing I have found that works consistently.
i try to download skype on my ubuntu 10.4 but they program allows only for ubuntu 8.10
any how i install it in my package after that i got an error:wrong architecture !
thank you
DS Erbes, do you even understand how the internet works? You think JayTag – intelligent, witty people as they may be – are the guys who coded up Skype?
Maybe you should stick with using landline telephones for now, eh?
Hi Guys, I have a ubuntu 10.04 installed on thinkpadT42, skype was running fine on it. but recently , i noticed that , if now i open the skype from Applications, Then the skype application is launched and after around 1 min it wanishes. I saw that the process is killed after 1 min.
I uninstalled the software and Reinstalled it and still the same bahaviour. Skype version i am using is:2.2.0.25
Is there any solution to this problem??
I wish that I could say that I have a known fix for this issue – 2.2.0.25 appears to be a slightly older version – have you tried 2.2.0.35 here? Also, there is a known issue with Skype and PulseAudio (changing to ALSA is a pain, I know) check the thread here and especially this post.