#1 2017-09-17 12:19:26

Laadna

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Skype with bunsenlabs

Hello there.

As my labtop comes with an old (32bits) processor, I cannot install skype for linux. There are still two ways of using skype. The first is going trhough web.skype.com, the second is using third-party skype clients (like ghetto).

Both of them have the same issue when I try a vocal/video call : my contact don't get the invitation and the call ends in seconds with the message "busy". The webcam works properly, as the flash applet and browser authorizations (anyway, I think so, double checked that).

I set up Chromium as my default browser during bunsenlabs installation, which provided a specific version of flash (I think ?). I connected to web.skype.com through firefox as well (and installed the packet flashplugin-nonfree for firefox), and the issue was different : the video and audio call buttons were non-clickable, like if I had no webcam. And I also checked if my webcam worked properly on firefox (with a website like www.un-miroir.com).

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Skype with bunsenlabs

I set up Chromium as my default browser during bunsenlabs installation, which provided a specific version of flash (I think ?)

No, the Debian (and hence BunsenLabs) version of Chromium does not include FlashPlayer but it can be added with our bunsen-pepperflash package.

Have you tried using Chrome instead?

That does come with PPAPI (although it must be manually activated) and that may help with DRM-restricted sites, although I have to say that such sites work fine for me with FF & NPAPI.

I don't have any experience with Skype so I can't help directly but my family use FaceBook video calls regularly on our Debian stretch laptop (basic pekwm/lxpanel desktop, no display manager) and it always seems to work.

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Laadna

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Re: Skype with bunsenlabs

I checked and bunsen-pepperflash is already installed. Chrome does not seem   to have a 32bits version.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Skype with bunsenlabs

Have you seen https://wiki.debian.org/skype?

There may be some tips there.

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Laadna

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Re: Skype with bunsenlabs

Roughly, yeah. The skype packet for an i386 computer is not maintained and the old (4.3) version cannot communicate with more recent versions. The only ways for a computer like mine are third-party packets and web skype... Which is now stable. Or should be. Anyway the wiki is also outdated.

Bearded_Blunder

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Re: Skype with bunsenlabs

yeah, skype is only available 64 bit..

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