Skype not in edgy-commercial

[Stuart Bishop]

Skype was available under dapper in the dapper-commercial repository on archive.canonical.com. It is no longer available under edgy-commercial though (in fact, nothing appears to be available in edgy-commercial).

[Áron Sisak (asisak)]

This does not appear to be a bug report as such. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise your question at http://launchpad.net/support.

[Áron Sisak (asisak)]

Skype has set up a repository now that also works for Ubuntu:

deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free

[Stuart Bishop (stub)]

This was a report, not a question.

The issue is that people who installed Skype under dapper using the repository and have upgraded to edgy now have a broken skype installation. There is no migration procedure. Perhaps this is an upgrade issue, that if skype was installed from dapper-commercial then the external skype repository needed to be added automatically? Perhaps a dummy package needs to be created informing users of how to upgrade their skype installation?

[Áron Sisak (asisak)]

Sorry, based on the bug-report I thought that users want to download Skype through Canonical repositories that is a support request, I think. There were no broken installations mentioned. And I think Skype is not broken if you upgrade from Dapper to Edgy, it is just no more available through these repositories.

Sorry for committing this mistake, again.

[Simon Law (sfllaw)]

Hi Stuart,

The *-commercial repositories are hosted by the professional services division of Canonical Ltd. They are not part of Ubuntu proper. Please contact Canonical itself for support with these issues.

Thanks for your report!