-----Original Message----- From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of ken Sent: den 22 november 2017 20:14 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] skypeforlinux lacks dependencies, won't update
On 11/19/2017 12:53 PM, vychytraly . wrote:
Maybe try flatpak version? there should be no problems with
dependencies
there... :)
Thanks, I didn't know about flatpak... even tho it's in the base repo! I have to admit though, after reading through the flatpak website about it, I still don't understand how it could overcome the dependency problem with the skypeforlinux update. Grateful for enlightenment.
On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 7:02 PM, ken gebser@mousecar.com wrote:
For about a week now yum has tried and failed to update skypeforlinux:
Packages skipped because of dependency problems: skypeforlinux-8.10.0.4-1.x86_64 from skype-stable
Processing Dependency: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.20)(64bit) for
package:
skypeforlinux-8.10.0.4-1.x86_64
Is there any resolution to this issue?
Please excuse the sidetrack.
I had to do a Skype-meeting yesterday evening. Some weirdness occurred.
A background; Have two OEM:s, one at work, one at home. Same hardware, same OS - CentOS 7.4 x64, same repos and both fully updated, same software installed. I believe the chassis differ though(...).
At work, the rpm from https://www.skype.com/en/get-skype/, refused to install with the same errors as above regarding the libs.
The Skype Flatpak from https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/com.skype.Client.flatpakref installed just fine and the test call showed no problems, so that's what I installed at home too.
The Skype flatpak at home worked beautifully, that is to say for about ten minutes, then the sound (using a Koss SB/45 headset) it started crackling to the point of not being usable anymore. I hung up and reconnected, then sound was fine, for another ten minutes at which point the crackling returned. Checking the sound prefs, I saw that alsa on the app tab had two instances, one stable and one that blinked like crazy, like it was opening and closing a few times a second.
On a hunch I downloaded the skype for linux rpm from the link above and installed it with yum. No lib errors! I started it and gave it a go, and - no crackling whatsoever. In fact it worked as good as it gets IMHO.
Is there anything that could account for the problem I had? I read that the network bandwidth may be a problem, and that five Mbps at a minimum with video is the low mark. At work I sit on a 1 Gbps up/down network. At home I have 100 Mbps up/down. I have doubts that the network width was the problem.
Are flatpaks known to cause odd problems at all?
-- //Sorin