No sound in Skype

Danish Shaikh

So I have been trying to install Skype in Ubilinux RC3.0 (NOT kernel 4.4.11-2). I downloaded skype (skype-debian_4.3.0.37-1_i386.deb, since there was no amd64 port available for Debian) from

https://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-linux/

and installed it as follows

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo dpkg -i skype-debian_4.3.0.37-1_i386.deb

I got plenty of dependency errors, which is corrected with

sudo apt-get -f install

Now I can start skype and log in and it recognizes my HP 3100 webcam and all. But there is no sound when I make a voice call. Otherwise sound works fine in kodi for e.g.

During the installation I noticed the there was one dependency that couldn't be resolved:

libasound2-plugins:i386

I believe it is because of this that sound does not work in Skype. Any ideas on how to add this? I tried manually installing the library that I downloaded from here -

http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/alsa-plugins/libasound2-plugins_1.0.25-2_i386.deb

as follows

sudo dpkg -i libasound2-plugins_1.0.25-2_i386.deb

but I got an error saying that this is dependent on skype....

Any ideas anyone?

Javier Arteaga

Hi danishbizkit,

Before we can help you further, would you mind re-trying your steps on the latest ubilinux release? We will be dropping support for the older release candidates.

Regards

Marcello

...please post your findings! thanks

Danish Shaikh

Will do mate, but with the new Ubilinux 3.0, Skype has now become the least of my problems

Danish Shaikh

MarcFinns wrote:

...please post your findings! thanks

Ok so now I have sound in skype! :cheer:

I downloaded skype (the Debian multiarch package - skype-debian_4.3.0.37-1_i386.deb) from
https://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-linux/
and installed it as follows

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo dpkg -i skype-debian_4.3.0.37-1_i386.deb

That went smoothly without any dependency issues.

The problem before was that the pulseaudio server package was not installed by default in the new release. I installed it and rebooted as follows -

sudo apt-get install pulseaudio
sudo reboot

That went smoothly also.

After logging back in Skype now works with both audio and video, I tested it by making a Skype video call. Yay! :cheer: :cheer:

Marcello

Great!
There are more news on that front
blogs.skype.com/2016/07/13/skype-for-lin...and-chromebooks/amp/

Danish Shaikh

MarcFinns wrote:

Great!
There are more news on that front
blogs.skype.com/2016/07/13/skype-for-lin...and-chromebooks/amp/

Could you post that as a proper link?

Marcello

Sorry, i did it from the phone and it did not work out.

Here is the proper link.