Install Skype - Ubuntu 8.04 3
To install Skype on an AMD64 system, you’ll need the 32-bit libraries (if you’re distro is 32-bit, skip this),
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
Then download the appropriate package from…
Firefox should download it to your desktop so…
cd Desktop
sudo dpkg --install --force-architecture --force-depends skype-debian_2.0.0.68-1_i386.deb
And you’re done, with the Webcam driver installed and enabled you should now be able to make video calls too.
Twittering with Skype
Just found out how to do this, major bonus, now I can twitter from my Skype account; how easy is that!
- First open Skype and click ‘Search’
- Do a search for ‘twitter4skype’
- Add them to your contacts
Now to authenticate this little Skype Robot with your Twitter account your going to have to send it a chat message, but in one line so be careful here.
- Start a chat with twitter4skype
- Type: /account
- Press shift+return together
- Type in your twitter account name
- Press shift+return together
- Type in your twitter password
- Press return
You should get a message shortly after saying ‘Registration complete!’.
Now every entry you send to twitter4skype will appear in your Twitter stream, including fully formatted html links.
Plus any posts your friends make will appear in the Twitter4Skype chat stream so you can track what your friends are doing as well as yourself.
Warning!
Be aware though that if you post anything in any group skype chats / swarms the Twitter4Skype bot will post them to your Twitter account.
Major pain!
Only way to kill it is to change your Twitter password, or change the Group chat to a Public chat.
Practically a virus!
The Skypephone
I am so getting one of these, launching in the UK on November 2nd 2007; Skype and the 3 network are releasing a mobile phone that is connected 24/7 to the Skype network so all your phone calls are now free.
Damn cool, ok you have to top-up a minimum of 10 quid a month on pay-as-you-go and it costs 49.99 but with a 2mp camera, mp3, video streaming and instant messaging via Skype how could it be bad!
Will have to wait and see.
Alternative
Alternatively if you don’t want to buy the new Skypephone and you’re on an all-inclusive data plan, like Blackberry, you could use fring.
This is a free piece of software you download on to your SmartPhone which allows you to hook up to one of the IM Services like Skype, etc. at no cost other than data.
