I am new to UBUNTU and want to install Skype after downloading it.

Asked by Pravin Shah

How to install Skype for UBUNTU 12.04 after downlaoding it .I will appreciate your help as I am new to UBUNTU
Pravin Shah
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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said :
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Please open a Terminal and copy-paste the following commands one-by-one into this Terminal:

sudo apt-get remove skype skype-bin

wget http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-ubuntu-precise_4.2.0.11-1_i386.deb

sudo dpkg -i skype-ubuntu*.deb

sudo apt-get -f install

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