You wrote: > On 16 October 2012 19:48, David Coppa <dco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Jay Patel <rockworl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi ... i copied the libskype.so under /usr/local/purple/ but it wont > >> show up under adding account or in plugin options ...how to link this > >> library to pidgin to get access to skype.. let me know ... > >> > > I would have thought a better route would be inside a Linux/Windows VM > inside of QEMU?
But then sound won't usually work, which sort of defeats the point of skype. There are much better IM networks and clients than skype. What there isn't so far is a voice chat that's better than skype, although they only offer it on 32 bit Linux and Windows and some other not very useful fringe platforms.
