We now have yum and apt repositories available for testing. Please check them out and post here if they work OK for you.

Using Skype's apt repository

Simply add the following line to your sources.list file (usually /etc/apt/sources.list):

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

Now you can use apt-get update to sync to latest repository and then apt-get install skype to install Skype on your machines.

Using Skype's yum repository

1. If you haven't already, download Skype's public key from http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/...-public-key.asc and then as root issue the following:

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rpm --import rpm-public-key.asc

2. Then add the following line to /etc/yum.conf

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[skype]

name=Skype Repository

baseurl=http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/3/updates/i586/

3. Now run the following to sync and install the latest version in the repository.

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yum install skype

Yum worked fine for me.

The standard for yum now is not to stuff repos into yum.conf but to put each repository in a seperate file in the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory called x.repo like:

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/etc/yum.repos.d/skype.repo

I also added the line

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gpgcheck=1

to that file.

One other thing is that it seems it would be better if variables were used in the url like this example from the livna.repo

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http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn

instead of hard coding as in:

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http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/3/updates/i586/

That way, when you release for Fedora Core 4, we won't have to change the skype.repo file to find it.

thanks for adding this.

Debian repo looks good so far.

Can tell you more, when you release a new version! ;-)

Thanks
Philipp

We now have yum and apt repositories available for testing. Please check them out and post here if they work OK for you.
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Using Skype's yum repository

1. If you haven't already, download Skype's public key from http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/...-public-key.asc and then as root issue the following:

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rpm --import rpm-public-key.asc

2. Then add the following line to /etc/yum.conf

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[skype]

name=Skype Repository

baseurl=http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/3/updates/i586/

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Even better: add the following line to the above:
gpgkey=http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/rpm-public-key.asc
and put it all in /etc/yum.repos.d/skype.repo and then yum will automagically import the key upon first install.

What about an apt repository for SuSE? Did I miss it or isn't it actually there?

What about a repository for slackware....
Or even better a generic .tgz repository.

Ubuntu is installing perfectly too.
Though I still have a problem with skype, nut I'll ask that elsewhere

:!: No, Ubuntu DO NOT installig perfectly from apt. I guess same is with Debian too. That is becouse Ubuntu uses Gnome and there is missing libqt. When I install from apt-get it does not automaticaly install libqt-mt libraries, so I can not tell, that it works perfect. Please add needed repositories, so apt-get can found it. I installelled libqt-mt seperately and skype works.

It's working great here on Ubuntu Hoary, thanks!

And if you look at the thread linked below, you'll see it's working for other Ubuntu users, too!

"HowTo: Add Official Skype Apt Repository" (ubuntuforums.org)

And if you look at the thread linked below, you'll see it's working for other Ubuntu users, too!

I am talking about dependencies :evil:. If U have installed right ones before, of course, there will not be any problems.

It worked on my Ubuntu Hoary.

The APT repository seems out of date - the latest deb available from the main download page is skype_1.2.0.11-1_i386.deb, but the APT repo only has skype-1.1.0.20-1_i386.deb.

Also, both versions of the skype .deb have the incorrect dependencies control field:
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4) | qt (>= 3.2)
This can be satisfied by installing only libc6, and not qt. The following is probably what was intended:
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), qt (>= 3.2)

edit
Correction, qt isn't a debian package. dpkg-shlibdeps suggests the following:
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.0.0-9), libqt3c102-mt (>= 3:3.3.4), libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.3.4-1), libx11-6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxext6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0)

If some strange debian-based distros use 'qt' instead, this should still work:
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.0.0-9), qt (>= 3.2) | libqt3c102-mt (>= 3:3.3.4), libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.3.4-1), libx11-6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxext6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0)

Note that this may be more strict than necessary; you may want to test to see if earlier versions of packages will work anyway.

This is great! But how long will it take before the latest version will be available from apt-get, after the official release?

EDIT: Nevermind, latest version downloaded from apt now.

Downloads and installs fine - complains about authentication "NOT AUTHENTICATED" message.

Cheers

seems to be working fine here also :wink:

No it doesn't work at all, it doesn't install neceassery dependencies. That's pretty much the idea with apt-get. It downloaded and installed fine, but couldn't run because of missing libqt-m (or something like that).

I realized this when I installed Ubuntu all over again today.

http://www.ubuntuguide.org/#skype

Thanks, but I managed to make skype work. My point, however, was that this isn't working like apt-get is intended to work.

You are correct. It was my mistake to earlier claim that it worked fine when in fact I was using a completely different *.deb.

Yep,

yum worked fine for me on FC4 after modifying the instructions a little and creating a skype.repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d. Contents of my skype.repo file:

[skype]
name=Skype Repository
baseurl=http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/3/updates/i586


Regards,
nekky