Sorry, to be honest I dont have personal experience with skype flatpak so I dont know how does it behave. But I would recommend to report your problems to issues page on skype flatpak github: https://github.com/alexlarsson/skype-app On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 7:49 AM, Sorin Srbu <Sorin.Srbu at orgfarm.uu.se> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of ken > > Sent: den 22 november 2017 20:14 > > To: centos at 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 at 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >