Skype is undoubtedly a world leader in internet telephony. Skype offers free Skype to Skype calls and also has the ability to call out to standard phones, around the world. Installing and using Skype on your Ubuntu machine is no longer a hassle as Skype has being putting effort into their Linux version of their Internet softphone.
There are two ways of installing skype on your PC, The graphical user interface method, or a quick terminal method.
Graphical User Interface Method:
1. Head over to Skype.com and download the Skype .deb package for Ubuntu
2. Double click the downloaded package and follow the installation prompts
Via The Terminal
1. Download the Skype package
“wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-ubuntu-32″
2. Install the Skype package
“sudo dpkg -i skype-ubuntu-intrepid_2.1.0.81-1_i386.deb”
This will install the downloaded skype package onto your system
The Skype package also resides in the Medibuntu repository, if you would prefer to have the system’s software package manager deal with the skype installation and update it automatically, you may install it via the Synaptic Package Manager, you will, however, need to add the Medibuntu repository to your software sources.
1. Open a terminal and enter the following
“sudo wget –output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get –quiet update && sudo apt-get –yes –quiet –allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get –quiet update”
This will add the Medibuntu Repository to your system and also it’s required GPG key
2. Install Skype:
“sudo apt-get install skype”
The system will download and install Skype, creating a launcher under Applications > Internet
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Tags: Configuration, Installation, Instant Messaging, Interface, Internet, Packages, Repositories, Software, Synaptic
