Perhaps another option would be to build a USB stick with Chrome on it with all the necessary plugins? http://paulhami.edublogs.org/2011/11/16/chrome-browser-on-a-usb-flash-drive-with-accessibility/

You could also build a whole OS on a stick, but that would require rebooting the cafe system, which they might not like.

Mike

On 08/16/2012 08:35 AM, Joseph Apuzzo wrote:
What version of Skype is installed?
Did you try installing the version from Skype's website?
http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/get-skype/on-your-computer/linux/
I just d/l and ran the "dynamic" 4.0.0.8 version on my Company ( locked
) RHEL 6.3 and it works fine.
Sometimes the repositories are a version behind.

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Jack Chastain <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Mark Wallace
    <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:



        If she has to install a plug in, she may not be able to do it on
        a computer cafe system.


    To my knowledge, you need to install the GoogleTalk plugin to use
    Google Video Chat - and I know I cannot install it on my work
    system, so I am going to guess it won't work for her unless she can
    either get the plugin installed, or it is already there. If she can
    get it or it is there though, I agree - it usually works pretty well.

    JackC


        On 08/15/2012 06:03 PM, Michael Muller wrote:

            Mark Wallace wrote:

                I teleconference with my fiancee on Skype every Friday
                Night.  She goes
                to a computer cafe in Hong Kong, I use Skype via Linux.

                There was a new version of Skype in the upgrades that
                won't work on my
                system.   If she starts her webcam, then her picture
                breaks up and Skype
                crashes on my system.  Ubuntu 12.04 with Skype 4.  The
                old one worked
                fine.  Skype then loses all of it's settings.

                Remember, she can't install anything on her computer
                cafe computer. What
                do I do?  PIdgin doesn't work wiith a lot of messenger
                services.

            Have you tried g-mail video chat?  I've found that to work
            pretty well on
            most of the Linux systems I've used it on.

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