I’ve had Skype working on Ubuntu for a while, but I thought I’d blog it so it would be easier to find if I had to do it again.
To get Skype, I just downloaded the Ubuntu bundle from Skype’s site. Or you can go and checkout their other linux downloads.
For the record, I was not having trouble making calls. Once I was on a call, dialing numbers produced funny echo sounds on the line. This made it impossible to participate in conference calls because I couldn’t navigate phone trees.
Here’s how I fixed it:
Get the pulseaudio-utils.
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-utils
Then, run skype through padsp.
padsp skype
That is all.
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