Install Skype on Ubuntu

Install Skype on Ubuntu from a terminal is not very complicated, for that we will follow following steps in a terminal with sudo privileges.

Install Skype for ubuntu 64 bits :

• wget -c http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-ubuntu-intrepid_2.1.0.81-1_amd64.deb
• sudo dpkg -i skype-ubuntu-intrepid_2.1.0.81-1_amd64.deb
• rm skype-ubuntu-intrepid_2.1.0.81-1_amd64.deb

Install Skype for ubuntu 32bit :

• wget -c http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-ubuntu-intrepid_2.1.0.81-1_i386.deb
• sudo dpkg -i skype-ubuntu-intrepid_2.1.0.81-1_i386.deb
• rm skype-ubuntu-intrepid_2.1.0.81-1_i386.deb

In script mode, for which he does not know that architecture is

• # Skype
• Tipo=`uname -m`
• if [ "$Tipo" = "x86_64" ]
• then
• wget -c http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-ubuntu-intrepid_2.1.0.81-1_amd64.deb
• sudo dpkg -i skype-ubuntu-intrepid_2.1.0.81-1_amd64.deb
• rm skype-ubuntu-intrepid_2.1.0.81-1_amd64.deb
• else
• wget -c http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-ubuntu-intrepid_2.1.0.81-1_i386.deb
• sudo dpkg -i skype-ubuntu-intrepid_2.1.0.81-1_i386.deb
• rm skype-ubuntu-intrepid_2.1.0.81-1_i386.deb
• fi
• #

Using gedit we can save as skype.sh and run it from terminal

• chmod 755 skype.sh
• chmod +x skype.sh
• sh skype.sh