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I am trying to install and use Skype 4.3 in ubuntu 14.04 (I upgraded both recently). I kept gettign the "skype can't connect" error so I followed the instructions here to the letter:

How to install Skype 4.3?

This works for the first skype use, but when I quit skype and run it again, I get the same (4.2) screen with the same "skype can't connect" error.

I can bypass the error by deleting my .Skype directory, but I have to do this prior to every single skype run.

Any ideas what could be causing this? I don't understand why a 4.2 error message window would show up anymore. I purged 4.2 using apt-get autoremove and apt-get purge and so forth.

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    run sudo apt-get purge skype* then delete old rm -rf ~/.Skype folder, next try installing install skype 4.3 as again. – αғsнιη Sep 01 '14 at 03:59
  • thanks, but I have done this repeatedly! it works for the first run, but once the new .Skype folder is created the error returns. – sam Sep 01 '14 at 16:05
  • Update: The problem cleared itself up eventually for me. I cannot see how it happened. – sam Oct 01 '14 at 22:14
  • I kept trying to delete the ~/.skype folder and it kept telling me that it did not exist... until I put a capital 'S' to the name. Ha! Ha! Total Unix geek here. – Alexis Wilke Oct 14 '14 at 01:16

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I had the same problem and solve change the skype version to last version that time: 4.2.0.13-1_i386.deb , in fact by repository is more precise but I guess that have a error in any list of repo. Unfortunately now have other problem with the sound, a noise in line, maybe the pulse audio, so... I wait answers too ;)

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