Skype installation with Ubuntu Linux

Tested on Ubuntu Linux 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon. (2007-10-21)


Installation method 1 (adds the Medibuntu repository)

Copy and paste the following commands to your terminal.

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/gutsy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list && wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install skype && skype

Installation method 2 (adds the Skype repository)

Copy and paste the following commands to your terminal.

sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.before.skype.orig && sudo perl -e 'open(DATA, ">>/etc/apt/sources.list" ); print DATA "\n#Skype: http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/repositories.html\ndeb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free\n\n"; close(DATA);' && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install skype && skype

Note: You can ignore the error that the install package is not authenticated.