New version of Skype does not work as expected, how to install the older version?

Question

New version of Skype 4.0.0.8 does not work as expected, how to install the older version? Please help me, new version of skype really has many bugs in it, I want to use older version which is much simpler, but much more convenient. Thank you very much.

Answer 1

you have two possibilities:

Solution 1: delete the "new skype", download skype 2.2 from http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/mint_import/maya/import/base/skype, install it.

There is a chance that ubuntu will update skype again, the next time you do an update, what brings us to solution 2.

Solution 2: Use the static version of skype 2.2 like spyroboy explains on superuser.com

if you download the statically linked (not requiring system dependancies) skype >distributable, you can run both Skype 4.0 and Skype 2.2 on the same system.

install skype 4.0 using the deb, and download the statically linked version of skype >2.2 and extract it to /opt and then add /opt/skype-VERSION to your $PATH in ~/.bashrc

rename the skype executable in /opt/skype-VERSION to something like skype-2.2

and once you've done all of that, you should be able to run skype-2.2 and skype for >either version.

here's Skype 2.2 static: http://download.skype.com/linux/skype_static-2.2.0.35.tar.bz2

hopefully you understand what to do, if not, just askubuntu ;)

Good Luck!