Gianluca Interlandi via tde-users wrote: > Just curious, did you install skype on your parents PC using SNAP? > yes - you asked in your question about snap. there is no other way ATM. I followed the instructions on the skype page. > I can't find much information about SNAP. Is this a way to re-package > Ubuntu stuff for other distros? Does this carry the risk that an openSUSE > installation would break (such as overwriting existing files)? > No, it is a way to make one-size-fit-it-all. Basically you package your application for SNAP and install using SNAP. Then SNAP takes care to run your application (it uses DBus for example to interact with your system) It is an abstraction layer. > I wished I could just download a tarball of one of the latest skype > versions. > No ... they stopped working. > Otherwise, I think I will be running skype just through the browser like > you say. Yes, if you do not want to add snap to your PC, it works pretty good as well. ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
