skype

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I'm afraid Lubuntu doesn't use Alsa, but I may be wrong. If you want to upgrade, use an USB stick, install

usb-creator-gtk

and choose to upgrade, it's easier than download everything.

I am able to adjust sound properties with ALSA, so that means Lubuntu uses ALSA? As far as using a USB stick, do you mean the one that has Lubuntu OS on it? And then type the line above into terminal window? I know that when I was trying to use recordmydesktop, the mic wasn't working because it was set to single channel input instead of dual, or something like that, but I didn't find a similar setting in skype. Is it looking for input from a jack?