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@@ -6,10 +6,20 @@ running any of the supported platforms, as well as receiving
and placing calls from and to normal land lines as well as
mobile phones.
-Skype needs QT, so you'll have that installed (QT is part of
-the slackware distribution)
+This SlackBuild allows to build both 1.3 and 1.4 versions of
+Skype.
-Please note that the mirror from which we download skype is not
-skype.com. This is due to the fact that skype has removed any
-and all support to skype-1.3.x in lieu of skype-1.4.x which is
-QT4 based. \ No newline at end of file
+Skype 1.3 needs QT3, so you'll have that installed (QT3 is
+part of the slackware distribution).
+Skype 1.4 needs libsigcxx (libsigc++), available on both
+SlackBuilds.org and linuxpackages.net).
+
+Since Skype 1.4 is QT4-based, to keep dependencies at a
+minimum the linked file is a static build, and is twice as
+large as the 1.3 version, which is instead a dinamically
+built QT3-based package.
+The Skype 1.3 mirror is
+http://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/pardusrepo/sources/skype-1.3.0.53-generic.tar.bz2
+md5sum: e288e398e4a34a5760ff6321b253ed08
+
+Both versions work fine with Slamd64. \ No newline at end of file