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New version is released. See for full overview: https://repo.skype.com/deb/pool/main/s/skypeforlinux/

Hello, is it possible to downgrade flathub's skype to 5.5, please ?
I did update it on today, and Skype 8.9 after successfull sign-in says Startup_Load_Error.
Sorry for bothering

While trying to update/reinstall skype I keep getting this error:
error: Wrong size for extra data https://repo.skype.com/deb/pool/main/s/skypeforlinux/skypeforlinux_8.11.76.8_amd64.deb

1.First why is root the user of the skype not the user?
2. you have to login every time you start the app
3.when the app minimizes to the info bar it is no longer possible to re- open or close it or normal to use, you have to close via ksysgard or pid
only restart the hole system and newstart a instance is working one time.

Betriebssystem: Manjaro Linux
KDE-Plasma-Version: 5.18.5
KDE-Frameworks-Version: 5.69.0
Qt-Version: 5.14.2
Kernel-Version: 4.19.121-1-MANJARO, Kernel- Version: 5.6.11-1- Manjaro
Art des Betriebssystems: 64-bit
Prozessoren: 2 × Intel® Pentium® CPU P6200 @ 2.13GHz
Speicher: 3,5 GiB Arbeitsspeicher

Skype includes an option to use system settings for picking the light/dark variant of the theme. However, this option doesn’t work; it always sets the theme to light, despite the system theme being dark.

Would it be possible to supply gnome-keyring as part of this package? Skype will not stay logged in without it.

Hi,

I noticed that if I run Skype and then quit the app (File -> Quit) the skype process remains in the background:

 7410 pts/2    S      0:00 bwrap --args 37 skype
 7421 pts/2    S      0:00 /app/extra/share/skypeforlinux/chrome-sandbox /app/extra/share/skypeforlinux/skypeforlinux --type=zygote ...

That happens each time I run Skype, i.e. if I run it 3 times then I end up with three separate stale processes.

I have Skype 8.68.0.100, commit eedbc84efb8a57ce326c1035e3b1be9ae33e2a038b1fa72134aada271814e470 and Flatpak 1.2.5.

Hello,

while updating / installing skype with Flatpak i've the following error :

ID                       Branch         Op         Remote          Download
 1. [\] com.skype.Client         stable         i          flathub         118,8 MB / 120,1 MB

Installing… ████████████████████ 100%  9,9 MB/s  00:00
tar: data.tar.xz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
mv: cannot stat 'usr/*': No such file or directory
rmdir: failed to remove 'usr': No such file or directory
sed: can't read share/applications/skypeforlinux.desktop: No such file or directory
install: cannot stat 'share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/skypeforlinux.png': No such file or directory
        ID                       Branch         Op         Remote          Download
 1. [✗] com.skype.Client         stable         i          flathub         118,8 MB / 120,1 MB

Error: While trying to apply extra data: apply_extra script failed, exit status 256
error: Failed to install com.skype.Client: While trying to apply extra data: apply_extra script failed, exit status 256

is it related to my local install ?

Update: Information about Flatpak :

Nom          : flatpak
Version      : 1.10.2
Publication  : 2.fc33
Architecture : x86_64
Taille       : 7.4 M

Thanks a lot !
Greg.

Dear Mantainers,
After latest update to v. 8.59.0.77, the launcher does nothing and Skype doesn't start. On the contrary, flatpak run com.skype.Client by terminal works fine.

I'm sorry, but I'm not so familiar with Flatpaks and therefore I don't know how to debug this issue.

My System:
Debian 10 Buster 64bit
Gnome 3.30.2

Best regards,
Domenico

I'm running Silverblue 32, installed the Skype flatpak, but new incoming don't show up. If I quit and start it again, the messages comes.

Skype currently cannot screen share on Wayland in the Deb or in the Flatpak.

This is as Skype does not show the share screen button on Wayland, despite Electron supporting Wayland screen sharing.

Skype not showing the screen share button on Wayland is entirely arbitrary, given one can succesfully screen share from the Skype web app in Chromium (ignoring minor Chromium WebRTC PipeWire bugs).

So if Skype were to remove this restriction, and ship with a semi recent version of Electron, screen sharing would likely work on wayland. Working Electron screen sharing apps include Jitsi Meet and Slack (note we can use the runtime's pipewire 0.3 starting from electron 13).

When Skype enables the share screen button on Wayland a change to the manifest will be needed. We should build in PipeWire support similar to what was done for Slack Flatpak.

The combination of Skype making the button visible, the Flatpak building with PipeWire, and passing --enable-features=WebRTCPipeWireCapturer should make screen sharing work for Skype on Wayland. Note the need to pass the command line option should be resolved in Chromium eventually.

When running Skype 8.16.76.1 from flatpak I am unable to use an external webcam.

Using skypeforlinux-8.16.0.4-1.x86_64 installed from rpm everything work.

I have also tried running with device=all override but that made no difference.

flatpak run --device=all com.skype.Client

Hello!

My Skype lost the connection on last friday, like often without actual signaling about it and kept my status on available. After I recognized that I don't receive any messages I restarted it, now it keeps saying I have no internet connection.

I reinstalled the application and also removed all files from my home directory, which remained. Nothing helped. So I switched the regular skype-preview-package from Archlinux, it works fine.

I get the following issue when starting Skype flatpak on Fedora 33.

kernel: skypeforlinux[247455]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f976964ea5e sp 00007f974bffe008 error 4 in libc-2.31.so[7f9769514000+150000]

and

 systemd-coredump[247535]: [🡕] Process 247411 (skypeforlinux) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                               
                                               Stack trace of thread 32:
                                               #0  0x00007f976964ea5e n/a (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.31.so + 0x15ca5e)

Using latest version of Skype flatpak and Fedora system up to date.

Please let me know if any further information is needed.

Thus, Cinnamon menu is not able to list Skype app from the UI.

I get the following error when I try to udpate skype

Updating in user:
com.skype.Client/x86_64/stable flathub ace9c2c4c60c
Is this ok [y/n]: y
Updating for user: com.skype.Client/x86_64/stable from flathub
F: Loading https://repo.skype.com/deb/pool/main/s/skypeforlinux/skypeforlinux_8.71.0.36_amd64.deb using libsoup
[####################] Downloading extra data: 118.0 MB/118.0 MB (118.0 MB/s)F: Received 117990556 bytes
[####################] Downloading files: 1/1 118.0 MB (39.3 MB/s)           F: Looking for checksum ace9c2c4c60ce953467e0e351626f56c268a5dfb96645ba0b966c0dcd095685c in local repo
F: extracting extra data to /home/balasr/.local/share/flatpak/app/com.skype.Client/x86_64/stable/.ace9c2c4c60ce953467e0e351626f56c268a5dfb96645ba0b966c0dcd095685c-LINJ20/files/extra
F: Opening user flatpak installation at path /home/balasr/.local/share/flatpak
F: Disallowing ipc access
F: Disallowing network access
F: Failed to run in transient scope: No systemd user session available, cgroups not available
F: Running /app/bin/apply_extra 
ar: error while loading shared libraries: libbfd-2.35.2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
tar: data.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
mv: cannot stat 'usr/*': No such file or directory
rmdir: failed to remove 'usr': No such file or directory
sed: can't read share/applications/skypeforlinux.desktop: No such file or directory
install: cannot stat 'share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/skypeforlinux.png': No such file or directory
install: cannot stat 'share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/skypeforlinux.png': No such file or directory
install: cannot stat 'share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/skypeforlinux.png': No such file or directory
install: cannot stat 'share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/skypeforlinux.png': No such file or directory

This seems to have the logical bug as the flatpak for microsoft teams had flathub/com.microsoft.Teams#49 (comment)
So I the solution is probably to

1. Set the dynamic linker path correcty (or use rpath) like this flathub/com.microsoft.Teams@f7477f9
2. Use bsdtar like this https://github.com/flathub/com.microsoft.Teams/pull/59/files

If installation lacks gnome-keyring, (which can happen, for example, in Arch with KDE), then Skype seems to work as intended, except that every time application restarts, it asks for credentials anew. Installation of gnome-keyring via system package manager (and creating default keyring when prompted) seems to solve the problem.
It is completely unobvious for average user. To make things worse, Microsoft support claims that logging out is an intended behavior to force users to update to newer versions. It makes user think that problem is in the flatpak package.
Please, either provide gnome-keyring in the flatpak package or, if impossible, at least add some script to warn user if gnome-keyring is missing. Not everyone uses Gnome.

Latest stable version as of this posting is 8.54.0.91 and was released on November 4, 2019.
https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA34778/what-s-new-in-skype-for-windows-mac-linux-and-web

When running Skype with flatpak run com.skype.Client I'm unable to download files from Skype, i.e. when I click on a file that has been sent to me it will stay stuck in "Downloading..." (the file is never written to disk because flatpak treats the directory as read only).

If I start flatpak with flatpak run --filesystem=home:rw com.skype.Client it works and the file is saved to /home/diego but I'd prefer if the file is saved to ~/Downloads and I don't have to give Skype full read/write permissions.

Thanks.

Seems like it isn't connecting to libnotify. I don't get native notifications or notifications through libnotify.

Skype doesn't export GlobalMenu, but all dbus-appmenu packages installed.

Please help. There is should be some console command for whitelist electron/microsoft dbus-menu exporter.

Skype doesn't load anything, it's just a blank screen on openSuse Leap 42.3.

I have no idea why this happens the way it happens but I can reproduce it on my notebook every time and would love to help debugging.

With the current Skype version, when I start the client using flatpak from the Gnome desktop or flatpak run com.skype.Client, it doesn't neither pick up my camera nor my microphone. Giving me a quite useless setup.

When I was about to debug it, I opened a bash using flatpak run --command=/bin/bash com.skype.Client and started skype using this shell within the flatpak using skype as command. Suddenly it picks up all devices, camera works and the microphone as well. 😅

I'm very interested in ideas how to debug this and fix it in a long term perspective.

PS: I had another notebook where things worked flawless for months 🤡

Since 2019, Skype has been using the logo shown here

The system tray icon disappeared for Skype version > 8.56
skypeforlinux continue to run in the background but impossible to show the app main window.

Tested on:
Ubuntu 18.04
Gnome 3.28.2

Skype wants to talk to NetworkManager and bluez. This could allow it to change the network configuration, request Wi-Fi scans, and scan for local Bluetooth devices, which it really shouldn't need to do:

        "--system-talk-name=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager",
        "--system-talk-name=org.bluez",

I have to run it manualy like this in order to see the error message:

$ flatpak run --command=bash com.skype.Client 
$ SKYPE_LOGS=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/logs
$ mkdir -p $SKYPE_LOGS
$ env TMPDIR=$XDG_CACHE_HOME /app/extra/share/skypeforlinux/skypeforlinux --executed-from="$(pwd)" --pid=$$

(process:6): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Failed to generate minidump.Segmentation fault

The versions I have:

com.skype.Client/x86_64/stable  flathub cb2696afdf7e
org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/1.6     flathub 5c009a06a3f7

it's out, see https://repo.skype.com/deb/pool/main/s/skypeforlinux/skypeforlinux_8.45.0.41_amd64.deb

Ideally the appdata would have OARS metadata, release tags, screenshots and a more comprehensive description.

Hi, I performed a flatpak update today and Skype now is unable to start

[4:0501/171049.301389:FATAL:nss_util.cc(632)] NSS_VersionCheck("3.26") failed. NSS >= 3.26 is required. Please upgrade to the latest NSS, and if you still get this error, contact your distribution maintainer. Failed to generate minidump.

I am using Linux Mint 18.3 with latest updates installed.

Thanks
Graham

Please update to the new version

Each time I start Skype, I get a notification:

You've been signed out of Skype. Launch the app to sign back in.

The text is very confusing (why does it tell me to launch the app immediately after I run the app!?).

That's Skype fault though. The real issue seems to be that something prevents the session from staying alive. My only override is the one below, since I obviously don't want Skype to have access to my entire filesystem:

$ cat ~/.local/share/flatpak/overrides/com.skype.Client
[Context]
filesystems=!home:ro;xdg-download:create

However, even giving it a persiste home does not help:

flatpak run --persist=home com.skype.Client

From what I understand freedesktop 1.6 runtime is not a really good runtime, compared to the later versions. So I think it is probably better to use the newer version.

I'm on a wayland session of KDE Plasma, and the scree saver comes on when I'm using Skype in full-screen mode. Does the flatpak maybe need the org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver=talk permission as a Session Bus Policy?

[kubuntu 18.04]

Despite the in-app setting to auto startup on boot, this does not occur. The app has to be launched manually.

May relate to issue #20 (gnome-keyring dependency) - as after launching manually I am prompted to unlock the gnome keyring.

I set up a virtual video camera using v2l2loopback and OBS studio, for additional preprocessing

options v4l2loopback devices=1  exclusive_caps=1 video_nr=8 card_label="Virtual Webcam"

In Skype, I can see the webcam listed, but I get just a blank screen in the Settings → Audio & Video preference page. I can access it just fine using other apps, e.g. Cheese.

I do not see any relevant output in $HOME/.var/app/com.skype.Client/config/logs, so I'm not sure how to debug this. Any help would be appreciated.

Distribution: RHEL 8.1
Desktop Environment: GNOME 3.32.2
Flatpak Version: 1.0.9-1

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start Skype
2. Close Skype through Alt+F4, CTRL+Q, etc.
3. Start Skype again

After starting Skype again, you are asked to login instead of showing previously launched Skype instance. Checking running processes, there seems to be a duplicate instance. This seems similar to issue #11.

Workaround: foreach PID in $(ps u | grep skype | cut -d' ' -f2); do kill ${PID}; done

After killing all running Skype processes, you can start a properly functioning instance again. I tried killing just the PID reported by flatpak ps but it doesn't seem to have any effect.

I didn't have this problem one to three months ago.

Since I installed Fedora 32, I have the following error in the log:

kernel: SGI_video_sync[2382]: segfault at e6 ip 000056253bcd9b8d sp 00007f7c6eefb7c0 error 6 in skypeforlinux[562538945000+5425000]

Regards,

How To

Nothing really special. I updated Skype and since then it won't start. Running it from the terminal gives no logging. Preforming a Flatpak repair does nothing as well.

System

System:    Host: kevin-tuxedobook Kernel: 5.0.0-25-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Gnome 3.32.2 
           Distro: Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: TUXEDO product: N8xEJEK v: N/A serial: N/A 
           Mobo: TUXEDO model: N8xEJEK serial: N/A UEFI: American Megatrends v: 7.11 date: 11/02/2018 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 57.4 Wh condition: 57.4/59.9 Wh (96%) 
CPU:       Topology: 6-Core model: Intel Core i7-8750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP L2 cache: 9216 KiB 
           Speed: 1142 MHz min/max: 800/4100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 900 2: 900 3: 900 4: 901 5: 900 6: 900 7: 900 8: 900 
           9: 900 10: 900 11: 900 12: 900 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] driver: nvidia v: 418.56 
           Display: server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa 
           resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz, 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1050/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 418.56 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GP107GL High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.0.0-25-generic 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 driver: iwlwifi 
           IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: 74:70:fd:fa:9d:9e 
           Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169 
           IF: enp4s0f1 state: down mac: 80:fa:5b:66:ca:f4 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 529.78 GiB (45.5%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO M.2 250GB size: 232.89 GiB 
           ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM049-2GH172 size: 931.51 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 220.12 GiB used: 64.12 GiB (29.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 54.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 50 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 397 Uptime: 32m Memory: 15.40 GiB used: 6.03 GiB (39.2%) Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.33 

Client info

          ID: com.skype.Client
         Ref: app/com.skype.Client/x86_64/stable
        Arch: x86_64
      Branch: stable
     Version: 8.51.0.72
     License: LicenseRef-proprietary
      Origin: flathub
  Collection: org.flathub.Stable
Installation: system
   Installed: 3,6 MB
     Runtime: org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/18.08
         Sdk: org.freedesktop.Sdk/x86_64/18.08

      Commit: 3c349350580315d12c7038848a1077c0d9bfdf2ae34c77109935b559a20caebf
      Parent: d1e05f025673be0531b46db6949edabad27751f3685d1b55e37b6b3a805e13c8
     Subject: Update com.skype.Client.appdata.xml (bc6a9be4)
        Date: 2019-08-28 22:01:44 +0000

Skype says "No device found" but I have a microphone (built in).

Skype: up to date.
Flatpak: 0.8.6
OS: openSUSE Leap 42.2
PC: Dell Latitude E5470

As package no longer there

Error: While downloading https://repo.skype.com/deb/pool/main/s/skypeforlinux/skypeforlinux_8.50.0.38_amd64.deb: Server returned status 404: Not Found
error: Failed to install com.skype.Client: While downloading https://repo.skype.com/deb/pool/main/s/skypeforlinux/skypeforlinux_8.50.0.38_amd64.deb: Server returned status 404: Not Found

A small issue, not a big deal - skype for linux is out of date at 8.18.0.6

8.20.76.8 is available at AUR (and perhaps elsewhere).

Cheers!

Running flatpak run com.skype.Client. I get the message Oops! We're sorry, it looks like "skypeforlinux" crashed.
What other information is needed for investigation?

When launching skype from .desktop or directly through flatpak run always starts new process tree, ignoring those already running in background

OS: Fedora 27 x64
Platpack: 0.10.1

When running the flatpak I have connection to the skype network, the app-internal audio and video tests work just fine, but the skype test call facility indicates that I cannot have a phone conversation - the connecting jingle is played and followed by dead silence with the 'End test call button' indicating that the app assumes me in the call.

I'm running

$ flatpak info com.skype.Client

Ref: app/com.skype.Client/x86_64/stable
ID: com.skype.Client
Arch: x86_64
Branch: stable
Origin: flathub
Collection ID: 
Date: 2018-05-20 10:23:46 +0000
Subject: Remove bundled NSS (0d5af1ea)
Commit: 5888d877b745a03b5cf782fcd5f00bdd2cf0a63a9c9bd9c98715d23e7063af33
Parent: 60ed545e0c694bdd2cf35ea36d0b6a539da5333890f9d8c081d3a1fa43765233
Location: /home/balin/.local/share/flatpak/app/com.skype.Client/x86_64/stable/5888d877b745a03b5cf782fcd5f00bdd2cf0a63a9c9bd9c98715d23e7063af33
Installed size: 44.5 MB
Runtime: org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/1.6 

When I try to install using the command from flathub site, I get the following:

$ LANG=C flatpak install --from https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/com.skype.Client.flatpakref
Installing: com.skype.Client/x86_64/stable
Installing: com.skype.Client/x86_64/stable from flathub
[####################] Downloading: 67,0 MB/66,7 MB (1,7 MB/s)                 
error: Wrong size for extra data https://repo.skype.com/latest/skypeforlinux-64.deb

Thanks for your efforts!

The Flatpak version of Skype does not seem to respect daylight-savings.

My current time-zone is Australia/Sydney (AEST/AEDT) which is currently +11 due to daylight savings. The Flatpak version of Skype outputs that it is using the following TZ: "Time: TZ: UTC+0-10:00, Local: 1577666508525".

The non-flatpak version of Skype using Fedora 31 does not seem to have this problem and displays the correct time - '"Time: TZ: UTC+0-11:00, Local: 1577666661634".

The Skype tray icon that appears on the lower left side of my GNOME desktop is broken. I haven't debugged it but it looks like it's the wrong size.

Here's a screenshot, next to the Linphone icon for comparison:

https://people.debian.org/~berto/files/skype.png