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How to upgrade Skype for Linux from version 4.2 to 4.3 without losing any of your old chat log / history

Skype for Linux, when updated to 4.3, from 4.2, brings up a big problem to many of the users who heavily rely on their Skype chat histories for a reason.
And since Canonical (the makers of Ubuntu) has included the update in its repositories, this problem is kind of unavoidable if you want to keep you up-to-date.
And with the now-Microsoft-owned Skype developers threatening that they would soon make the old Skype useless, you are in very much need of this fix to your existing Skype data files.

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