stephan beal wrote:
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 22:52, Doug McGarrett wrote:
http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/ I guess I'm too stupid to use this system. I went to the URL and supposedly downloaded the file, which said it went to tmp/kde-doug/konqueror/Ss5eYb.3.0.53 but I can't find anything there, and neither can YAST. Just in case that first S was a 5, I tried it both ways. I would really go to school for this if there was one not too far away, but I have looked.
Right-click the link which says "Static binary tar.bz2 with Qt compiled in", then click "Save link as..."
That will unfortunately save the file named "getskype-linux-static", instead of "something.tar.bz2" (like it "should" be). Now do:
tar xjf getskype-linux-static
that'll unpack to a dir named skype-1.3.0.53
from there, simply run the 'skype' binary. There is no installation, per se.
I am confused. Why don't you just download the SUSE RPM and get it over with. http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/