Skype update on 12.04

[J]

On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9 August 2014 15:31, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
>> As I said above, that is what I tried to do.
>
>
> No, you didn't.
>
> You tried to do an in-place upgrade: to load 4.3 on top of 4.2.
>
> What I am saying is:
>
> * remove 4.3
> * see if 4.2 still works
> * if it does, find 4.2 and remove it
> * see if any trace of Skype remains
>
> Once you have got rid of it, try a clean install of 4.3.

FWIW I ran into the same issue updating to 4.3 on Friday.

I did this via apt-get, which said it installed 4.3, but when I
launched,4.2 was all I found.

So remove the 4.3 package and then do this:

# sudo apt-get -l |grep skype

and then

# sudo apt-get purge <skype package name>

The package name should be skype-bin, but if you ever installed from
the skype site's packages instead, you may have a different package
name to remove.

Then re-install 4.3 either from the software center or via apt-get in
a terminal.

Cheers
Jeff