Pete:
Ok, if you're rocking out Ubuntu or debian it's easier than you think.
Heck they even support RPM...
Goto Skype.com / Click Download / It will show you a number of distro's,
I pick ubuntu / Download / Open with DPKG...
Click Enter password/ Click OK.
It's now in the application menu and it works. Ta-DA! It's easier and
faster than WINDOWS. In windows you have to go through the MSI installer
and go through that whole process.
God bless package management and let us all hope Microsoft continues to
deny it and give linux the edge :-)
--Matthew Rogers
Pete Theisen wrote:
> On Monday 18 February 2008 09:49, Robin 'Roblimo' Miller wrote:
>
>>> I am looking for plug and play, tried the other stuff and couldn't get it
>>> to work.
>>>
>> Hmm? Download Skype. Plug in a USB headset. Play. Works for me in
>> Linux/Mac/Windows.
>>
>
> Hi Robin!
>
> I have a difficulty installing *anything* on linux. I can download it, but
> when I try to install it will always break something and I have to have a
> tech fix the machine i.e. rebuild the linux install. Sometimes after that the
> thing I was trying to set up works, sometimes not.
>
> I used to do anything in winders, but I switched to linux because uninvited
> guests could do anything on my machine as well. Now they can't, but I can't
> either. No doubt you remember all those hassles getting the Toshiba to print
> to LPT 1 under linux at the Sarasota meetings. This sort of thing.
>
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