Skype¶
Description¶
Skype is an application that provides video chat and voice calls between computers.
User instructions¶
Skype is installed on all workstations via a downloaded installer. It can be started by choosing “Skype” in the XFCE menu, or by entering skypeforlinux
on the command line.
Source¶
Not available.
License¶
Admin notes¶
The skypeforlinux-64.deb
file was downloaded from https://go.skype.com/skypeforlinux-64.deb and is distributed and installed via puppet. This is a fairly large blob so is ignored by the puppet git. New versions can be simply downloaded over the previous version.
Note that the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list
is then removed by puppet so that apt doesn’t use the skype repository.