Comments on: Install Skype Instant messanger in Debian and ubuntu

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:34:26 +0000

Joejoe you have to use the sudo commands in the terminal under accessories. By default you won’t be a root user so you can’t edit files like the ap list directly.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:31:32 +0000

This works great thanks.

By: Joejoe

Joejoe — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:16:21 +0000

I just tried to download Skype debian – first on the website. Seemed easy, but when I open the folder it says ‘Could not open… The package might be corrupted or you are not allowed to open the file: please check the permissions of the file’

I then tried your method, typing ‘~$ sudo apt-get install skype’. In response it said:
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock – open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

I am a complete beginner, so please keep any response simple.

Thank you.

By: LorDa

LorDa — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:09:33 +0000

apt-get -f install miqo to solve the dependancies
then redo the apt-get install skype

By: miqo

miqo — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:06:11 +0000

“mikail:/etc/apt# apt-get install skype”
“Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
skype: Depends: libqt4-core (>= 4.2.1) but it is not installable
Depends: libqt4-gui (>= 4.2.1) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages”

help pls :S

By: Peter Schneider

Peter Schneider — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:01:58 +0000

Is it normal, that Skype today cannot be successfully installed on Ubuntu 6.06 (even when updated)?? Peter

By: Sriram

Sriram — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:31:38 +0000

Hey i cannot talk using skype… please help me

Ubuntu 8.04 – Hardy

Laptop integrated mic/webcam

By: Kebba

Kebba — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:07:27 +0000

This site is just great now i can use my skype in my debian, whiles before i always have to log in to windows to be able to use skype. thanks a lot

By: usul

usul — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:01:44 +0000

See screencast http://wikisos.org/wiki/Ubuntu_7.04:How_to_install_Skype how to install skype on Ubuntu

By: vandegraaf

vandegraaf — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:02:23 +0000

Perfect! I wasn’t able to install Skype with Easyubuntu (3.1), but it worked well with this procedure.
Thanks a lot!

By: aparna

aparna — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:21:46 +0000

good