On Debian 12 “bookworm”,
# snap list
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
bare 1.0 5 latest/stable canonical✓ base
core 16-2.61.2 16928 latest/stable canonical✓ core
core18 20240416 2823 latest/stable canonical✓ base
gnome-3-28-1804 3.28.0-19-g98f9e67.98f9e67 198 latest/stable canonical✓ -
gtk-common-themes 0.1-81-g442e511 1535 latest/stable canonical✓ -
snapd 2.63
# time snap install skype
error: cannot perform the following tasks:
- Run configure hook of "skype" snap if present (run hook "configure":
-----
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 5: unknown element "description"
/usr/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 11 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 7 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi: caching, new cache contents: 358 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi: caching, new cache contents: 358 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1: caching, new cache contents: 80 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/large: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc: caching, new cache contents: 92 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/util: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/cMap: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/cmap: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/eot: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/eot/roboto-fontface: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 2 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/eot/roboto-fontface/roboto: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/eot/roboto-fontface/roboto-condensed: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/fonts-go: caching, new cache contents: 12 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/liberation-fonts-ttf-2.1.2: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/opentype: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 30 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/alegreya-sans: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/artemisia: caching, new cache contents: 4 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/asana-math: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/cabin: caching, new cache contents: 8 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/cantarell: caching, new cache contents: 5 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/comic-neue: caching, new cache contents: 6 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/complutum: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/didot: caching, new cache contents: 4 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/ebgaramond: caching, new cache contents: 6 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/font-awesome: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/fonts-hosny-amiri: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/fonts-hosny-thabit: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/freefont: caching, new cache contents: 12 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/inter: caching, new cache contents: 36 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/ipafont-gothic: caching, new cache contents: 2 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/ipafont-mincho: caching, new cache contents: 2 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/linux-libertine: caching, new cache contents: 13 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/lobster: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/lobstertwo: caching, new cache contents: 4 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/malayalam: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/neohellenic: caching, new cache contents: 4 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/opentype/noto:
<exceeded maximum runtime of 5m0s>
-----)
real 5m33,684s
user 0m6,217s
sys 0m2,961s
# head /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "urn:fontconfig:fonts.dtd">
<!-- /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file to configure system font access -->
<fontconfig>
<description>Default configuration file</description>
<!--
DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE.
IT WILL BE REPLACED WHEN FONTCONFIG IS UPDATED.
LOCAL CHANGES BELONG IN 'local.conf'.
# time fc-cache -rf
real 2m4,235s
user 1m5,493s
sys 0m22,617s
Line 5 of /etc/fonts/fonts.conf seems fine, so the “Fontconfig warning” is probably bogus. Where to report the bug to?
As for the timeout “<exceeded maximum runtime of 5m0s>”, which internal command does it come from?
Issuing the commands snap remove skype --purge and rm -rf ~/snap/skype before snap install skype doesn't help.
Any chance to install skype via snap, or the hell with both of them?
wget https://go.skype.com/skypeforlinux-64.debwill get v. 8, compatible at least to Debian 11. The issue might be that the Snap version is not Debain 12 compatible.