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skype crahes, and double click on quicklaunch does not work

Asked by Aram Vardanyan

When skype is working for some 5 minutes, it just starts to not respond. need to kill app and try again.
And double click does not open skype anymore in quicklaunch

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Aram Vardanyan (armq92) said : 		#1

Double click problem is with 11.10

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Can you give the output of:

lsb_release -a; apt-cache policy skype; uname -a

Thanks

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Aram Vardanyan (armq92) said : 		#3

aram@Aram-Lenovo:~$ lsb_release -a; apt-cache policy skype; uname -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric
skype:
  Installed: 2.2.0.35-0oneiric2
  Candidate: 2.2.0.35-0oneiric2
  Version table:
 *** 2.2.0.35-0oneiric2 0
        500 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/partner i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Linux Aram-Lenovo 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:50:42 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
aram@Aram-Lenovo:~$

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Grab the 32bit deb from www.skype.com as it is a slightly later version. May help

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