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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ken
> > Sent: den 22 november 2017 20:14
> > To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: 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@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx
> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>
_______________________________________________
CentOS mailing list
CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
