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Skype with Video on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy

Posted At : December 31, 2007 12:42 PM 2 Comments

I was very excited to see that Skype recently released a beta version of Skype for Linux which has video support.

I duly went and downloaded the version for Ubuntu (the Fiesty Fawn one works great on Gutsy).

Initial attempts to get it working met with frustration - it quickly flashed up on screen and gave the following output:

$ skype
Aborted (core dumped)

After thinking on it a while and hearing reports of other people using it happily I had some further attempts. First plan of attack - make sure there are no settings from an old version that would conflict by (re)moving the settings directory.

$ mv .Skype .Skype.old

Try again and everything came up sweet - even the webcam! Thanks Skype. I'm very happy that this has removed the last reason I had to reboot to windows.

Check out the wiki page for the list of supported webcams in Skype on Ubuntu.

Cheers, Mark

2 Comments

Tom 2/24/08 10:03 AM

Thanks very much - I had the same problem, and this solution fixed it.

Stef! 2/25/08 6:53 PM

Merci! Thanks! Had the same problem!