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New install of Ubuntu 12.04.1. Start Ubuntu Software Center. Edit menu > Software Sources > Other > tick the Canonical Partners sources. Click close.

Search for Skype. Skype app is not listed.

Following the suggestion I have reinstalled software center (surely there's a bug if the software center needs reinstalling after adding a source!), but still it does not show.

FYI: At a terminal apt-cache search skype lists skype and skype-bin.

I am comfortable at the command line, but people I am installing Ubuntu for are not. This is a real paper-cut - the first time I show them the software center, it doesn't work and I have to jump to command line.

So the question is: how to get it to show up in an easy-to-do user-friendly way?

PS. Please do not mark this as a duplicate of how do I install skype unless that page is updated to actually answer this question (and presumably this and this).

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artfulrobot
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Heres the better solution:

Download deb file here. Open terminal, cd to directory of downloaded skype and then run sudo dpkg --install --force-all TheSkypeFileName.deb. After installation, do not run skype, run this command instead sudo apt-get install -f, this will install all the dependencies. And your up.

nickanor
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I'm not sure why you don't see it if you have the Partner repository enabled, but the community help page at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Skype says the skype website points to the wrong package for 64-bit 11.10 and above, which is why you're seeing 386 libraries. If you look at some of the third-party instructions out there, you'll see instructions for 64-bit Precise/Quantal that point to Lucid 32-bit packages.

chaskes
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Use these:

  1. sudo apt-add-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ $(lsb_release -sc) partner"
  2. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install skype

first command will add the reepository for skype . then just update and install skype.

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