Skype always started and logged in automatically after PC start. But today it didn't happen. Instead of this Skype login window popped up and I was asked to enter my credentials. I entered them, the login window disappeared, but nothing else happened. I didn't see the usual things after that like the main Skype widnow, contacts etc. I thought that I was hacked, but no, as I could login with the same credentials on the Skype webpage. Then I repeated the procedure, but started Skype from terminal, hoping to see some errors, but there was no output at all. skype command just exited.
Is my Skype version still supported (4.3.0.37)? I've heard that Skype had reduced the number of supported Linux versions this summer…
My OS: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
My Skype version is
Best Answer
As you can see here Microsoft decided to force people to upgrade to newer Skype versions and the old ones cease to work since a few weeks already. This might probably be related to Skype moving from peer-to-peer to being cloud based (mentioned by @Rsf).
To get the newer version you should download the latest
.deb
file from Microsoft and install it withgdebi
ordpkg
(shouldn't make a difference butgdebi
is a bit more secure when it comes to dependencies).Be aware, the new Skype will create a file in
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/
and will do so every time it updates if the file does not exist with the exact name Skype chosen for it. So renaming the file in/etc/apt/sources.list.d/
only calls for trouble in form of duplicated source list entries. You as well want to remove any before existing files for Skype in yoursources.list.d
directory.