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Colin23erk:
A summery of the reason for my Original Post -----

Discovered I could not Log-in to Skype as I had done the Day before .

Asked Linux-Lite Forum

Discovered the reason and fixed my own Computer

Posted my solution on Forum to help others .

Valtam responded .

NOTE (to Myself)  In future I must avoid  making contentious  comments

Posts then went off at a tangent

End of Posting

riser:
Skype 4.2 stopped working, so you need to download Skype 4.3 from their site, uninstall 4.2 and install 4.3.  I did that in LL 1.0.6 without an issue.

Logging into the website should work without an issue.

riser

Colin23erk:
HI Everybody
Reading some of your comments I am not sure if you understood my problem with Skype ? I was not getting at the Linux community !

On 1st of August without any forewarning the Skype Site stopped me Logging In to my Account
All the message I got was --Cannot Connect to Skype--- . There was no message saying I needed to update to Version 4.3

I assumed that my Password or user name was corrupted or Skype app was corrupted and tried to fix them .Not succeeding I looked on the Web  Eventually after trying several searches I found a reference on the Skype Community Forum


--- Quote ---7 hours ago - last edited 4 hours ago by  Staff Moderator    Aimi  Staff Moderator
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From today, users with Skype for Linux version 4.2 and older will not be able to sign in to Skype. The error messages user will see during sign in may include “Can’t Connect to Skype” or ”Can’t login on Skype”. To continue using Skype, please update to the latest version.

--- End quote ---

Looking at the Quote they were not aware of it either  I was not getting at Linux but the way Skype had stopped me using 4.2 without directions what I needed to do.
I wasted a lot of time finding out why I could not sign in using the same procedure I used a few hours ago . I found the App on Skpe Downloads easily enough


With reference to the Skype app it is OK on the update but not in the Linux Lite repository via Install Additional Software Menu  so I was trying to alert Valtam or who updates that repository that it needs doing

Colin

rijnsma:
A few examples: very main stream Miro, Minitube, Tunapie, QArecord, even Jack, but so many more... Not working right or buggy or....
And it does not differ which distro you take. The most have their weak spots.
(PCLOS is rather good in this, but that can be past in a short time, I have see some years back.)

Over the years this has always been a real problem.
Again: there will be enough applications left that are good, but I would applaud a
Linux-team somewhere, where applications are kept or are brought in great shape.
It would be good for Linux.  ;)

I'm sorry Colin23erk, I don't want to interfere   ;)

N4RPS:
Hello!

I like the way Debian handles this issue - with different repositories, depending on how bold one wants to be concerning cutting-edge software. I CAN create and install .debs from a tarball if I must, but I prefer not to whenever possible.

Many times, one can find the latest versions of a program on Sourceforge...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

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