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Package Details: skypeforlinux-bin 8.138.0.213-1

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Git Clone URL:	https://aur.archlinux.org/skypeforlinux-bin.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base:	skypeforlinux-bin
Description:	Skype for Linux
Upstream URL:	https://www.skype.com/
Keywords:	skype
Licenses:	custom
Conflicts:	skype, skypeforlinux
Provides:	skype, skypeforlinux
Submitter:	Hanabishi
Maintainer:	Hanabishi
Last Packager:	Hanabishi
Votes:	332
Popularity:	0.54
First Submitted:	2024-03-04 17:57 (UTC)
Last Updated:	2025-03-27 10:22 (UTC)

Dependencies (11)

alsa-lib
bash (bash-devel-git^AUR, bash-git^AUR)
glibc (glibc-git^AUR, glibc-linux4^AUR, glibc-eac^AUR)
gtk3 (gtk3-no_deadkeys_underline^AUR, gtk3-classic-xfce^AUR, gtk3-patched-filechooser-icon-view^AUR, gtk3-classic^AUR)
libsecret
libxss
libxtst
nss (nss-hg^AUR)
squashfs-tools (squashfs-tools-git^AUR) (make)
libappindicator-gtk3 (optional) – system tray icon support
org.freedesktop.secrets (gnome-keyring-git^AUR, pass-secrets-git^AUR, keepassxc-allow-aur-extension-origin^AUR, keepassxc-allow-aur-extension-origin-bin^AUR, bitw-git^AUR, keepassxc-qt6^AUR, pass-secret-service-bin^AUR, keepassxc-git^AUR, pass-secret-service-git^AUR, dssd^AUR, gnome-keyring, keepassxc, kwallet, kwallet5) (optional) – keyring/password support

Required by (1)

skype-secure (requires skypeforlinux)

Sources (2)

Pinned Comments

Hanabishi commented on 2025-02-28 12:11 (UTC)

Microsoft is finally shutting down Skype in May

Hanabishi commented on 2024-07-31 07:28 (UTC) (edited on 2024-08-20 13:25 (UTC) by Hanabishi)

There is a problem with Skype being stuck on the login screen on first launch. That happens when your org.freedesktop.secrets provider doesn't have a keyring configured, i.e. also first launch.

I don't know if this is a quirk of libsecret or Skype itself, but we can't do pretty much anything about it anyway.

Solutions are simple though:

Despite the login screen being stuck, the login itself is actually successful. So just kill it and run Skype again, it should be fine after that.
Configure your default keyring manually (using seahorse, kwalletmanager etc.) before running Skype.

bulletmark commented on 2020-04-30 10:01 (UTC) (edited on 2022-06-13 00:22 (UTC) by bulletmark)

To get automatic login, install a package that provides org.freedesktop.secrets, e.g. gnome-keyring.

To get a systray icon, install libappindicator-gtk3. On GNOME, then install the appindicator extension.

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nursoda commented on 2022-06-13 00:06 (UTC)

There already are a few comments on Skype logging the user out upon start, along with the suggestion (even pinned) that one needs to install gnome-keyring. I'd like to add my insights here:

I use KDE and ever since have kwallet installed. Skype USED to work fine with that but stopped doing so after an update (probably more than a year ago):

Without gnome-keyring installed, Skype now starts and shortly shows the full logged-in windows including my Skype contacts. So I assumed that the secret is provided by kwallet. However, after a few seconds, it logs out. After login, it works fine. After closing the tray icon and restarting Skype, it's the same (logs out after a few secs).

So I installed gnome-keyring. It needs to be initialized (set a password¹) the first time it is started. Consecutive full Skype restarts lead to the expected behavior: Skype returns to a logged-in state after the restart.

My question is: Shouldn't Skype be able to use kwalled? Probably an issue Microsoft must solve. It might help if somebody associated to the KDE team raises attention there.

Notes:

¹ Mind to use your login password if you want that this keyring automatically gets unlocked upon user login; if you need to change your Gnome keyring password in KDE, the easiest way is to install seahorse and to right-click on the login-keyring.

bulletmark commented on 2021-12-07 22:46 (UTC)

@whynothugo, that is not what -bin means.

whynothugo commented on 2021-12-07 18:12 (UTC)

Can't this just be called skypeforlinux?

-bin is usually suffixed to packages to avoid a name conflict from packages that build from source, but there's not "from source" package for skype.

-stable is assumed -- most packages that don't specify otherwise track up-stream's stable releases.

mozo commented on 2021-10-07 11:37 (UTC)

@pvdl1984 No problems here.

pvdl1984 commented on 2021-10-07 11:30 (UTC) (edited on 2021-10-08 17:08 (UTC) by pvdl1984)

Never mind. Not sure what happened here, but audio output was not working for skype, even after a full system update and system restart. The following day it actually started working again.

Alterego commented on 2021-08-30 14:19 (UTC)

@Hi-Angel, no it was an error, i have deleted the other comment

I figured it was probably a login error not showing properly, i was able to login using another account

Thanks guys

Love you all

beroal commented on 2021-08-30 14:14 (UTC)

Working fine here too.

mozo commented on 2021-08-30 12:25 (UTC)

Working fine here.

Hi-Angel commented on 2021-08-30 12:25 (UTC)

@Alterego you posted the same question on both stable and non-stable. Do you have a problem with both?

With that said, no problem for me with 8.75.0.140