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However, when you right-click it and "mark for installation", you are told it is NOT AUTHENTICATED:
What to do?
Trust or not trust, that's the question
Last edited by Werner P. Schulz; 12-30-2012 at 10:30 AM.
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Thanks for the post. I could have sworn that Skype was one of the internet programs in the menu, but couldn't find it with knoppix 7.0.5 tonight.
<sigh> found my own post from earlier in this thread - forgot I had the same issue before:]
I too am trying to figure out how to install skype with knoppix and wondering why this isn't easier.
Last edited by Denver Dave; 02-27-2013 at 07:19 AM.
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Skype use in Knoppix, and some alternatives
...wondering why this isn't easier...
Knoppix doesn't include or facilitate inclusion of Skype as it might.
In researching why this should be, I have learned that there are both
licensing and potential security issues that cause this to be so.
Skype terms of use:
http://www.skype.com/en/legal/tou/
See especially the licensing section.
Skype security considerations:
http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/16407/skype-security-linux\
See especially Ninefingers' comments.
Without belaboring onerous licensing and potential security problems
related to Skype, I am informed that Knoppix users might be better served
by free software alternatives like Google+ Hangouts, standard SIP applications
like ekiga and linphone, or XMPP-compatible programs like Pidgin.
All of these have secure and open protocols, and best of all, are already
included-in, or at least freely available and applicable-to Knoppix.
This intends to amplify a hint Capricorny introduced back at post #9.
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Install GDebi (if you use CD version) via Synaptic and right click the .deb file of Skype. Choose GDebi Package installer and install. Worked for me .
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Well, gdebi sometimes can solve dependencies while installing .deb-packages; but have you seen the age of the thread?
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Well better later than never. And sometimes people get lazy and search for quick solutions so I decided to put one.
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