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Run multiple Skype's on Ubuntu 14.04 lts







Usually we need some of the extra in everything so what I needed the extras was the skype instances to rum on my system more than one. It was easy to do so in windows by running secondary by Run but when I tried to similar in the Ubuntu I was failed to get the result.

Then after going through the commands that skype gave me that I can do some stuff with that to run it.

I went to terminal and asked to say :

skype --help 


And it give me the desired result that I wanted but little hidden that I had to caught. Result was as:

Usage: skype [options]

Options:

--dbpath = <path> Specify an alternative path to store Skype data files.

Default: ~/.Skype

--resources = <path> Specify a path where Skype can find its resource files.

Default: /usr/share/skype

--disable-api Disable Skype Public API.

--callto <nick>

skype:<nick>?<action>

These commands allow Skype links handling.

--pipelogin Command line login. "echo username password | skype --pipelogin"

--version Display version information and exit.
With the help of --dbpath I was able to run the another instance as:

On terminal this line executed fine for me:
 $ skype --dbpath ~/Desktop


So enjoy running various instances of skype through this :)









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