Installing Skype 5

Jan 28, '11 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: renaultssoftware

Skype 5 for Mac became 'stable' today, so I decided to install it. Just installing it gave me headaches. Fortunately, I've found a way to get Skype 5 working properly.

First, open Skype and Check for Updates (Skype menu). It will prompt for Skype 5's download. Confirm it, and after a while the DMG file containing Skype will be downloaded to the desktop. Open the DMG. (Unfortunately, the software does not self-update; you have to install it yourself.)

Quit Skype. Open the Applications folder, delete Skype from it, and confirm the move. Finally, drag Skype 5's icon into the Applications folder.

Trying to simply drag the Skype 5 icon into the Applications alias gave too many errors, which is why I've written this hint.

[crarko adds: You gotta love an application that can't even install properly. I think I did something similar to the above process when upgrading Skype 5 from the beta to the release version.]

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