{"id":3735,"date":"2014-08-02T02:49:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T02:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3735"},"modified":"2014-08-02T02:49:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T02:49:56","slug":"skype-4-3-available-canonical-partners-repository","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/08\/skype-4-3-available-canonical-partners-repository\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype 4.3 Now Is Available in Canonical Partners Repository"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/skype-logo-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3484\" alt=\"install Skype 4.3 in Ubuntu\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/skype-logo-icon.png\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/skype-logo-icon.png 240w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/skype-logo-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>The latest skype for Linux 4.3 was released in the middle of June with updated UI, new cloud-based Group chat experience. Now it&#8217;s available in the Canonical Partners repository for Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and their derivatives.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>From now on, enable Canonical Partners repository via <b>Software &amp; Updates<\/b> utility, then you are able to upgrade to Skype 4.3 by running regular system updates via <b>Software Updater<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Skype4.3-ubuntu-1404.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Skype4.3-ubuntu-1404.jpg\" alt=\"Skype 4.3 in Ubuntu 14.04\" width=\"600\" height=\"328\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Skype4.3-ubuntu-1404.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Skype4.3-ubuntu-1404-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>What&#8217;s New in Skype 4.3:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An updated UI<\/li>\n<li>Our new cloud-based Group Chat experience<\/li>\n<li>More reliable file transfer support when using multiple devices at once<\/li>\n<li>Greater accessibility by blind and visually impaired users<\/li>\n<li>PulseAudio 3.0 and 4.0 support<\/li>\n<li>Lot of bug fixes<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Skype 4.3 for Linux official release note\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.skype.com\/2014\/06\/18\/skype-4-3-for-linux\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Skype 4.3 release note.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Install \/ Upgrade to Skype 4.3:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>1. Open <b>Software &amp; Updates<\/b> or <b>Software Sources<\/b> from Unity Dash, go to <b>Other Software<\/b> tab and enable Canonical Partners repository.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/canonical-partners-repository.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1752\" alt=\"Enable canonical partners repository\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/canonical-partners-repository.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/canonical-partners-repository.jpg 520w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/canonical-partners-repository-300x137.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. To install Skype, just search for and install it from Ubuntu Software Center.<\/p>\n<p>To upgrade Skype, open <b>Software Updater<\/b>, after checking for updates, you&#8217;ll see Skype 4.3 available for update:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/upgrade-2skype43.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/upgrade-2skype43.jpg\" alt=\"Upgrade to Skype 4.3\" width=\"500\" height=\"359\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/upgrade-2skype43.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/upgrade-2skype43-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are familiar with command line, just run:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install skype<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/skype-4.3-ubuntu.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/skype-4.3-ubuntu.png\" alt=\"Skype 4.3 Ubuntu 14.04\" width=\"560\" height=\"382\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/skype-4.3-ubuntu.png 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/skype-4.3-ubuntu-300x204.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest skype for Linux 4.3 was released in the middle of June with updated UI, new cloud-based Group chat experience. 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From now on, enable Canonical Partners repository via Software &amp; Updates utility, then you are able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[342,855,1084],"class_list":["post-3735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-skype","tag-ubuntu-14-04","tag-ubuntu-14-10"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}