Package Details: skypeforlinux-bin 8.138.0.213-1

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)

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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:

  1. 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.

  2. 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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Alterego commented on 2021-08-30 12:18 (UTC)

With the latest version login ends up in a white screen, anyone with the same issue?

bulletmark commented on 2021-07-31 22:15 (UTC)

@sixtyfive, the sha256 sum for skypeforlinux_8.74.0.152-1.x86_64.rpm is 1b19fbb55c75815c78e9c20ed29a97c6b11c8b45a2444dd8f1aa51d7ca354039 which is the same as in the PKGBUILD here. What are you getting?

maderios commented on 2021-07-31 12:03 (UTC)

@sixtyfive Do you use an Aur helper? No sum error when using 'makepkg -sicC' usual command in main directory.

sixtyfive commented on 2021-07-31 10:13 (UTC) (edited on 2021-07-31 10:14 (UTC) by sixtyfive)

@bulletmark, the output is:

==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    skypeforlinux_8.74.0.152-1.x86_64.rpm ... FAILED
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
error downloading sources: skypeforlinux-stable-bin

I said the SHA256 was wrong, because manually inserting pkgname and pkgversion into the URL, downloading the file, taking its sha256sum, inserting that into the PKGBUILD and running makepkg worked fine then.

bulletmark commented on 2021-07-31 08:08 (UTC)

@sixtyfive, the SHA256 sum is correct. What is your actual error message?

sixtyfive commented on 2021-07-31 08:03 (UTC)

SHA256 changed :-/

bulletmark commented on 2021-05-14 12:25 (UTC)

@billypilgrim, thanks for the tip. I have changed it.

billypilgrim commented on 2021-05-14 09:17 (UTC)

Quick question: Why do we need rpmextract for this PKGBUILD? Can't bsdtar extract rpms anyway?

Hi-Angel commented on 2021-05-01 13:40 (UTC)

Hi-Angel said on 2021-03-04 23:27:

Fun thing is Skype. […] Only on 3rd swap storm Skype has gotten just a tiny bit of its memory into SWAP (0, 0, 1.8M, 24.0K, 1.2M, 2.9M). Idk yet why Skype behaves that way, but am very curious.

As a follow-up to my older comment, just in case anybody else was wondering about that: apparently, the only reason Skype is kept out of SWAP is that kernel decisions were lacking. While using "multigenerational LRU" patchset, Skype get correctly reclaimed into SWAP. I hope this patchset will get upstreamed sooner rather than later.

txtsd commented on 2021-04-17 14:36 (UTC)

@allexj Both of them are optional since Skype does work without them. btw gnome-keyring is just one of many org.freedesktop.screts providers. I use KeePassXC, and it's amazing.

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