No sound in Skype

Danish Shaikh
Danish Shaikh New Member Posts: 20 ✭
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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?
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  • Javier Arteaga
    Javier Arteaga Emutex Posts: 163 mod
    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
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  • Marcello
    Marcello New Member Posts: 156 ✭
    ...please post your findings! thanks
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  • Danish Shaikh
    Danish Shaikh New Member Posts: 20 ✭
    Will do mate, but with the new Ubilinux 3.0, Skype has now become the least of my problems :)
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  • Danish Shaikh
    Danish Shaikh New Member Posts: 20 ✭
    edited July 2016
    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:
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  • Marcello
    Marcello New Member Posts: 156 ✭
    Great!
    There are more news on that front
    blogs.skype.com/2016/07/13/skype-for-lin...and-chromebooks/amp/
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  • Danish Shaikh
    Danish Shaikh New Member Posts: 20 ✭
    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? :)
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  • Marcello
    Marcello New Member Posts: 156 ✭
    edited July 2016
    Sorry, i did it from the phone and it did not work out.

    Here is the proper link.
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