92 responses so far ↓

• 1 Builders // Sep 24, 2007 at 8:21 am

  Wow that’s very simple instruction but a faster way of installing skype on Ubuntu. Last month I did it but it takes an hour to install it. Coz Skype is not available on Ubuntu software repository, and therefore cannot be installed with Ubuntu’s package management software such as Synaptic or apt-get without adding the Skype repostory.

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• 3 Saulius // Oct 20, 2007 at 2:53 pm

  –NO — NO — NO
  better is:
  deb http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/ stable non-free

  Install Skype:

  # sudo apt-get install skype

• 4 Dean // Oct 30, 2007 at 8:11 pm

  Saulius – I finally got round to trying your suggestion of installing the deb package. I ran into lots of issues and couldn’t get it to work. Maybe it is caused by me running Ubuntu 64-bit.

  There are lots of good resources on the web to help with installing Skype on Ubuntu 64-bit. But to be honest, I don’t have the patience to mess around for ages on the command line, installing packages, missing libraries, etc.

  I was up and running with Skype using Medibuntu in minutes, so that is the way I will stick with for now.

• 5 Victor // Mar 5, 2008 at 4:31 pm

  Thank you!! i have been trying to install this on ubuntu for soo long… you have no idea how helpful this was….

• 6 RichardLee // Apr 10, 2008 at 12:33 am

  This way will keep back and remove many packages, which hurt the current system.

• 7 Ash // May 3, 2008 at 12:14 am

  This is really what so called wowwww.

  The process didn’t take time and Skype was runnin fantastically.

  Thank You

• 8 YAHYA // May 10, 2008 at 7:23 pm

  Thank you …….

• 9 Andor // May 13, 2008 at 1:16 pm

  Thank you, was really good under 8.04 as well, but a few more clicks, but easy!

• 10 josephine // May 29, 2008 at 5:20 pm

  thanks. worked well.

• 11 Juan Pablo // Jun 2, 2008 at 7:17 pm

  Quería comentarles cómo instalé el Skype en mi Ubuntu 8.04 AMD64 sin seguir estos pasos.
  1º.- me bajé wine y lo instalé como corresponde.
  2º.- bajé la versión skype-2.0.0.63.tar.bz2 y la descomprimí en una partición cualquiera.
  3º.- Cualquier programa como Gnome Commander, Nautilus, que me permita ver ese directorio, con el botón derecho del mouse, elegí la opción “Abrir con sine windows emulator” y en un segundo, sin tanta vuelta pude tener funcionando el Skype sin siquiera aparezca en mi menú de Ubuntu.

  Para abrirlo más fácil, abrí el Navegador de archivos Nautilus y arrastré al escritorio el archivo “Skype”. Luego entré en propiedades (botón derecho del mouse) y le tildé la opción “abrir con wine windows emulator”.

  Dentro de todas las opciones, sin repositorios, etc. (y no porque la haya descubierto) me parece la más fácil.

  Cualquier duda, avisen.

  Saludos desde Argentina!

• 12 krishna // Jun 19, 2008 at 10:19 pm

  WOWWWW

  Marvelous

  and

  simple.

  Great work dude.

• 13 patrick mungai // Jun 23, 2008 at 2:05 pm

  thanks man,
  Just like a walk in the park.
  It was well broken down didn’t take more than 10 minutes
  thanks again.

• 14 nash911 // Jun 29, 2008 at 7:20 pm

  By far the easiest and the simplest way of installing skype on Ubuntu. Thanks to you!

• 15 Richard Knuszka // Jul 15, 2008 at 6:57 pm

  The suggestion worked a treat, nice one !

• 16 Iyappan Krishnaswamy // Jul 24, 2008 at 9:48 am

  Great work dude. It worked a treat.

• 17 Hatim // Jul 25, 2008 at 2:53 pm

  I have installed all versions of Skype, the one in medibuntu (skype, or static or even skype-oss). I can hear people, but they cannot hear me. My microphone is fine. I tried it on another machine with Windows and Linux. I have adjusted everything from the volume control and I still cannot talk to people. I can only hear them. Any solutions is more then welcome.

  Hatim

• 18 Hatim // Jul 25, 2008 at 3:07 pm

  I have also tried versions from Skype web page. I am sure I have a problem with my microphone, I cannot record my voice with sound record. I get the following error:
  Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them in the Multimedia settings.

  What should I do?

  Hatim

• 19 Christian // Aug 9, 2008 at 7:48 pm

  This didn’t work for me. A lot of the process had errors in the second terminal step. Although it looked as though it was downloading things and rebuilding the app list, skype isn’t in there :\

• 20 Nobby // Aug 12, 2008 at 1:57 pm

  Works a treat, thanks!

• 21 powerkid89 // Aug 20, 2008 at 3:30 am

  didnt work!!!.. how do i remove the files it put on?

• 22 Sven // Aug 25, 2008 at 12:02 am

  after this:
  wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add – && sudo apt-get update

  Got this:
  E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
  No install

• 23 Sven // Aug 25, 2008 at 12:21 am

  OK..After I closed Synaptic, installation completed, but no sound yet..default devices in options..

• 24 nemzetiszocialiszmus // Aug 26, 2008 at 5:29 am

  Thanks for helping others, it is good to be the one who helps than those who been helped ( is my grammar correct? X`) )

• 25 isha // Aug 29, 2008 at 12:56 pm

  please help insalling skype I am getting error Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched “skype”

• 26 Dean // Aug 29, 2008 at 1:23 pm

  Isha,
  Try to reinstall skype using synaptic package manager, that should fix it.

• 27 isha // Aug 29, 2008 at 1:27 pm

  I tried all the steps mentioned above using synaptic package manager but getting the same error.

• 28 Dean // Aug 29, 2008 at 1:28 pm

  Maybe this link will help.

• 29 isha // Aug 29, 2008 at 2:23 pm

  Thank you so much it helped me to install skype !

• 30 Viren // Sep 3, 2008 at 1:41 am

  If I install the medibuntu dependency list with the above command, will it not update my system with medibuntu updates?
  if so..
  How to cut the dependency with medibuntu.
  I do not wish to install a lot of stuff on my computer just to get skype.
  Im a new user so bear with me it does not make sense.
  Your answer is appreciated.

• 31 Dean // Sep 3, 2008 at 8:35 am

  Viren,
  If you don’t want Medibuntu on your machine then you will have to look at other ways to install Skype.

  You can download the Linux version direct from the Skype web site but I found installing it a lot more complicated and never got it to work.

  The Medibunti method provides an easier way to install Skype but I can understand this may not be for everyone.

• 32 Eddy // Sep 6, 2008 at 10:14 am

  Thanks a lot. It took something like 3 minutes to run it.

  Just one problem:
  Characters and therefore windows are too big, I don’t know how to reduce them.
  It’s already signed as “small” in View, but in fact is quite big.

• 33 fbkek // Sep 23, 2008 at 10:18 pm

  Very good!
  Thanks!!!

• 34 sivaji // Oct 14, 2008 at 2:14 pm

  thanks

• 35 JoeY // Oct 27, 2008 at 2:53 pm

  Thanks a lot Dean. Short and Simple steps. Got skype working in exactly 10 mins.

• 36 PetreX // Dec 20, 2008 at 1:33 pm

  This worked, but seemed easier to just download the .deb package off the Skype website. Running Ubuntu 8.10.

• 37 Annamalai Muthiah // Dec 20, 2008 at 5:03 pm

  Its really amazing..and very helpful..thanks a lot…

• 38 Tariq badsha // Dec 30, 2008 at 4:15 pm

  Another anomaly I notice is that when I check all the options for repositories. The source option shows a “-” instead of a check box. Could this be causing some problems later?

• 39 rikard // Jan 14, 2009 at 11:17 pm

  Thank you for this guide

• 40 Paul Whipp // Jan 19, 2009 at 5:52 am

  Install went fine in a clean 8.10 build but running skype resulted in
  /usr/bin/skype.real: error while loading shared libraries: libQtCore.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
  I’m guessing from the fact that its worked for some people that this is a library that is missing from the skype dependencies but that is commonly installed by other packages.

• 41 Ayan // Feb 7, 2009 at 2:38 pm

  hey!!!!
  thanks for the info.. I am a new user of Ubuntu 8.10..I have installed skype using
  http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/.. It really works & it’s really so easy..

• 42 Barr Parker // Feb 8, 2009 at 10:06 pm

  Superbly useful. Substituted “Intrepid” for Feisty & installed Skype into Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex. I haven’t a clue what to do on Linux – so a BIG thankyou. It works.

• 43 Themotorman // Feb 20, 2009 at 4:03 am

  I did the install from Skypes site… seemed Ok but the Logitech Pro webcam doesn’t seem to work with the Skype . I get a picture using the Logitech software but nothing when trying Skype, no sound no picture.
  I am anewbie Ubunutu user, love it but I’d like to keep away frm my Mxxxxsoft computer and get this to wokr. Ideas please.

• 44 Dean // Feb 20, 2009 at 8:23 am

  Themotorman,
  Firstly I would try using Skype on Microsoft Windows just to confirm the webcam works OK with Skype.

  I did find this in the Ubuntu forums. I haven’t read all the details but you might want to have a look.

• 45 Mana // Feb 23, 2009 at 12:39 am

  Can’t copy the text. ><

• 46 jedson // Feb 25, 2009 at 2:46 pm

  This is a very clear and helpful tutorial. Thanks.

• 47 Themotorman // Feb 25, 2009 at 3:31 pm

  JUst managed to get it working. Not sure why as the camera Logitech Quick cam pro is not supposed to work and even had troubles with winXP. I did everything listed here but nothing worked so I removed skype and reinstalled using Syanptic depository. Now it works!! I also loaded the audio when computer boots up. Sound in must be Camera and video has goen from scrambled to clear. It is frustrating because I can’t reproduce the steps. Therefore I can’t help much . Sorry.

• 48 Shapnik // Mar 9, 2009 at 4:48 am

  I try ur solution but due to unstable net speed my repository update was hampered. then i find this solution and get it done at last

• 49 Shapnik // Mar 9, 2009 at 4:51 am

  one thing can u plz mention whats the difference between ur solution and direct download that i find in this solution?? i’m a new comer in Ubuntu. So will u plz specify it? thnx in advance

• 50 Themotorman // Mar 9, 2009 at 4:57 am

  Skype now works fine. Using 8.10 and the Logitech Quick Cam on an old D505 Dell laptop. Works better than it ever did on winxp!! Sound quality is superb better than most phones and video clear and good rate, although I have a slow cable connection ( by choice to save $$).
  Thanks for all the help.

• 51 Dean // Mar 9, 2009 at 8:45 am

  Shapnik,
  See comments #4. I found installing Skype using Medibuntu a lot simpler than other methods which I why I wrote this article.

• 52 Kodeart // Mar 30, 2009 at 7:54 pm

  Dean, thank you for this wonderful post.

  I’m new to Linux and it was really easy for me to install Skype and other things as well, following this link: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

  Just read the docs

• 53 Themotorman // Apr 2, 2009 at 3:58 pm

  I tried downloading from Skypes own site and all I get is scrambled video! I then removed and purged skype from my Ubuntu 8.1 installation. Then I found this site http://t0x.in/medibuntu.html and followed all the very simple steps and WOW it works great. This is now the second time and I have a theory that the Medibuntu install process is different than the skype deb install. Can anyone tell us why?

• 54 Jimbo // Apr 7, 2009 at 12:12 pm

  Sweet! Working no problems!

• 55 mrmr // Apr 16, 2009 at 12:33 am

  thank you very much!!!

• 56 Service Team // Apr 27, 2009 at 6:42 am

  Thank you all for this information.
  I have been looking around to install skype.Here I get all the help.

• 57 whoppo // May 12, 2009 at 7:30 pm

  Just downloaded skype 2.0 for ubuntu right from the skype website…. double-clicked on the .deb package and it installed and works perfectly on ubuntu 9.04

• 58 Dhana // May 18, 2009 at 7:36 am

  HI frds i installed the skype but my webcam is not working my webcam model is(HP Webcam EW192AA#ABA) so please help me

• 59 Dan // Jul 6, 2009 at 10:25 pm

  This works well however Skype is up to version 4, this only installs version 2. Time for a serious update!

• 60 Mark // Jul 24, 2009 at 4:25 am

  Saulius – You were spot on man. Thanks

• 61 Geoff Jankowski // Jul 26, 2009 at 5:58 am

  Hi

  I needed to change feisty to jaunty in the first command but other than that it was fine.

  Installed 2.0.0.72 which remains the latest version on the skype site.

  Geoff

• 62 Joseph // Sep 13, 2009 at 5:07 am

  Great Job, easy step by step instructions! Works and looks a bit different than the Windows version, but at least I don’t have to reboot and bring up Windows anymore.
  THANK YOU!!

• 63 Srabasti // Sep 15, 2009 at 12:44 am

  Hi…. i followed the instructions but the hourglass seems to be running for quite sometime now, am i on the right track ? did this take a long time for all of u ?

• 64 Roberto Millán // Sep 22, 2009 at 3:52 am

  I installed Skype, running 100%…however, no sound..
  All sound in/out is in system default, change to all available settings, and still get same error msg:
  problem with audio playback.
  How can I fix this?
  Thank you all!

• 65 themotorman // Sep 22, 2009 at 4:22 am

  Make sure you have latest ALSA installed .Goto admin ..synaptic and do install from there. Did you check that you get sound with other functions like videos and CD’s?

• 66 Roberto Millán // Sep 22, 2009 at 4:33 am

  Thank you sir!
  First, I had found that the mic-in was muted, playing with the ALSA, later, just by playing with it, I got the sound in Skype to work.
  Now I’m having a problem with the webcam, a logitech webcam, don’t know the model..
  The image in Skype comes up, but it is really dark.
  How can I improve image?

• 67 themotorman // Sep 22, 2009 at 4:49 am

  I am using a logitech quickcam and I have no control over quality but it does a great job. Try loading WXcam and see how that looks . WXCam is a freeware prgm that is available via Ubuntu.

• 68 Roberto Millán // Sep 22, 2009 at 5:01 am

  themotorman: Thank you sir for your quick answers, and dedication to help the Ubuntu Community!
  Much obliged!

• 69 nina // Nov 8, 2009 at 9:54 am

  hello….i put the commant sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/feisty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list but it tell me that “HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 404 Not Found
  2009-11-08 11:52:29 ERROR 404: Not Found.” and if i continiu it said me that isn’t available the key ” NO_PUBKEY 727D031129047922″…
  please help me

• 70 nina // Nov 8, 2009 at 11:05 am

  finally i found what to do…i clik on http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-ubuntu download it and then 2-clik on it and then it make it all itself…
  i saw the command line and it correct all the mistakes and download everything it want itself

• 71 zoki mkd // Jan 25, 2010 at 10:07 pm

  i try four times and again dosent work, i have edubuntu 7.04 i dont know what should i do. any help needed

• 72 eotterburg // Jan 31, 2010 at 4:34 pm

  quiero instalar skype en ubuntu 8.04

• 73 mane // Feb 4, 2010 at 10:09 am

  I have edubuntu 7.04 and it doesent work. I tried everything.
  Please tell me what to do

• 74 pianoman // Feb 9, 2010 at 7:41 pm

  People… it’s NOT working… I tried everything, and nothing!!!
  My OS is edubuntu 7.04. Please help!

• 75 bayu // Feb 11, 2010 at 5:05 am

  bayu@bayu-desktop:~$ sudo aptitude install skype
  Reading package lists… Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information… Done
  Reading extended state information
  Initializing package states… Done
  Building tag database… Done
  The following packages are BROKEN:
  skype
  0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 20.2MB of archives. After unpacking 26.2MB will be used.
  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  skype: Depends: libasound2 (> 1.0.16) but 1.0.15-3ubuntu4 is installed.
  Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.3) but 1:4.2.4-1ubuntu4 is installed.
  Depends: libqt4-dbus (>= 4.4.3) which is a virtual package.
  Depends: libqt4-network (>= 4.4.3) which is a virtual package.
  Depends: libqtcore4 (>= 4.4.3) which is a virtual package.
  Depends: libqtgui4 (>= 4.4.3) which is a virtual package.
  Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 4.3) but 4.2.4-1ubuntu4 is installed.
  Resolving dependencies…
  Unable to resolve dependencies! Giving up…
  Abort.
  bayu@bayu-desktop:~$

• 76 vlatko // Feb 16, 2010 at 6:07 pm

  hi!!! ia m new with ubuntu, actually edubuntu and i dont know how to install skype…. please help!!! thank you in advance……….

• 77 lemon_farmer // Mar 3, 2010 at 9:47 am

  The thread is three years old and that first instruction takes you to a 404 because it doesn’t exist any more.

  For Ubuntu 8.10+ you can just go here:

  http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/choose/

  Download 32/64 version (if you try to install the wrong one it tells you so get the other) and then just click on it like you would an .exe file in Windows (sorry for swearing) and there will be the option to install it.

  If you’re new to Linux, this GUI is probably handier than the command line to begin with.

  Lem

• 78 b0rg // Mar 21, 2010 at 10:29 am

  I’m prompted with the same and exact issue bayu posted on #75. I took almost every possible means going through handful of forums but still unresolved.

• 79 buco // Jul 14, 2010 at 7:26 pm

  Hello! I have Feisty Fawn 7.04. and I can’t install with this direction. Please help me and answer me.
  Best Regards from Macedonia!!!

• 80 evgen // Oct 20, 2010 at 12:20 pm

  when i try to install skype from package .deb from skype page, it wirtes: error: dependency is not satisfable: libasound 2
  what can it mean?

• 81 ShadowVegan // Nov 3, 2010 at 5:05 am

  Thank you for this tutorial, very helpful!

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• 83 Sci // Feb 1, 2011 at 7:27 pm

  The following link shows an easy 5 step way to install skype. http://molecularsciences.org/linux/ubuntu/installing_skype_on_ubuntu

• 84 vengateshan // Apr 14, 2011 at 3:33 am

  where can i get skype for ubundu and how to install it?

• 85 Sam // May 4, 2011 at 10:33 am

  Its just a simple case just open the Terminal
  and type :

  sudo apt-get install skype

  then type your linux password
  and type yes

• 86 suhas // Jun 7, 2011 at 7:35 am

  How to install Skype In Ubuntu

  1)Download skype-ubuntu_2.2.0.35-1_i386.deb –Latest Version
  2Application-Terminal-
  suhas@suhas-desktop:~$ sudo -i
  [sudo] password for konnect: –insert password
  root@konnect-desktop:~#
  Go to where above skype-ubuntu_2.2.0.35-1_i386.deb file store

  root@suhas-desktop:~# cd /home/konnect/SuhasShare
  root@suhas-desktop:/home/suhas/SuhasShare# ls
  root@suhas-desktop:/home/suhas/SuhasShare# sudo dpkg -i skype-ubuntu_2.2.0.35-1_i386.deb

  after this if any error run following command

  sudo apt-get install -f

  complete process

  Suhas

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• 89 Bran // Jul 25, 2011 at 3:15 pm

  Idk, I think my repos are permanently borked. If I try to update, I get a bunch of “not found” errors or similar. I have the midbuntu repo, but it doesn’t work properly. My system says there is no valid version of skype available. I am running ubuntu 9.04 though. Where are the old .deb downloads? The skype site doesn’t offer any, just the newest one for 10.4, which i know will not work on my OS version.

• 90 januario maia // Sep 7, 2011 at 4:43 pm

  i want to acsess skype in komputer

• 91 Max // Sep 23, 2011 at 6:04 am

  Very helpful , i’m new on linux and i thought that i would be lost , but with that explanation it was very easy . thank you very much .

• 92 chantell // Jan 24, 2012 at 9:28 am

  Hi im from South Africa and trying to download Skype for my Vodafone Ubuntu Webbook . Please help me

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