[kwlug-disc] question about Webcam, Mic, Headphone for Skype video calls

[CrankyOldBugger]

Bit of a shot in the dark here, but does Pidgin have Skype plug-ins?

On 29 October 2014 12:50, William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:34:04AM -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> > One thing I found out was if you are running a 64 bit Linux, you need
> > to enable multiarch, since Skype is built as i386 not amd64.
>
> Yeah, I found it odd.  Also, distro choices are old versions, eg.
>     Ubuntu 10.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Debian 7.0, Fedora 16, OpenSUSU 12.1
> And, it requires Qt, which means Kubuntu.
>
> I'm running 64-bit Slackware, and it's 64-bit only.  So, not only do I
> need webcam/mic, but also a 32-bit machine. :-(
>
> Has anyone tried Skype from VM (VirtualBox or Qemu)?
> --
> William
>
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