Skype 1.4 Beta on Ubuntu Feisty 7.04

My wife has been an avid user of Skype lately for conference calls with her club. Typically running her calls on the Windows platform, I had to find an alternative solution for myself. Nice to know that Skype supports Linux and their most recent Beta has Feisty Fawn listed at the top of the list of several distributions. Just a simple Debian package you download and install as I’ll show. Skype for Linux website.

Please note the requirements:

Hardware requirements

• 400 Mhz processor or faster.
• 256 MB RAM.
• 20 MB free disk space on your hard drive.
• Microphone and speakers or headset.
• Internet connection (broadband is best, GPRS is not supported for voice calls, and results may vary on a satellite connection).

Software requirements

• Qt 4.2.1+
• D-Bus 1.0.0
• libsigc++ 2.0.2
• libasound2 1.0.12

Next, just click on the Feisty link to download the skype-1.4.0.74.deb file and open the file by clicking Ok. Ubuntu should try opening it with the default – GDebi Package Installer.

So click on the Install Package Button to install Skype.

Once installed, you will see Skype in your menu under Application > Internet> Skype

Upon launching Skype you’ll be greeted by the license agreement.

Next upon agreeing, you will see Skype ready to accept you login information – if you don’t have an account – just sign up for a free one.

Here is my Skype account running – I did remove some information from the screen – so yours shouldn’t look all empty like mine.

For more information, screenshots and faqs – check out the Skype Website.

-dhashi