Adding Skype to Ubuntu

Unfortunately there are programs that we like to use but do not fit in the Linux way of doing things - in this I meen the licensing. One of these programs is Skype. It cannot be installed and updated through the software repositories - well, at least not the default ones.

First open the sources.list file using Gedit as an example. Any other text editor will do. Run the following command:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Then go to the end of the file and add the following line:

deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free

Update the packages by running the following command:

sudo apt-get update

Then install Skype:

sudo apt-get install skype

If like me, you already had an older version installed through medibuntu, then just add the line to sources.list as described above and run the update.