{"id":1750,"date":"2013-09-27T09:14:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T09:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2013-10-27T10:56:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T10:56:22","slug":"ubuntu-1310-tip-install-skype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/ubuntu-1310-tip-install-skype\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 13.10 Quick Tip: How to Install Skype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/skype_video_call.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/skype_video_call.jpg\" alt=\"skype video call\" width=\"256\" height=\"190\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1751\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This quick tip is going to show beginners how to install Skype in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander.<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu 13.10 final will be release on October 17th. Now it&#8217;s in beta 2. If you&#8217;re going to install Skype on Ubuntu Desktop, this tutorial may help.<\/p>\n<p>1.) Skype is available in Canonical Partners repository, so first we&#8217;re going to enable this repository. Search and open <b>Software &#038; Updates<\/b> from Unity Dash. When it opens, navigate to <i>Other Software<\/i> tab. Check on the first two lines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/canonical-partners-repository.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/canonical-partners-repository.jpg\" alt=\"enable canonical partners repository\" width=\"520\" height=\"239\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/canonical-partners-repository.jpg 520w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/canonical-partners-repository-300x137.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2.) Install <b>Synaptic Package Manager<\/b> from Ubuntu Software Center. When done, you can use the tool to install Skype (see picture):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/install-skype-ubuntu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/install-skype-ubuntu.jpg\" alt=\"install skype ubuntu\" width=\"550\" height=\"276\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/install-skype-ubuntu.jpg 550w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/install-skype-ubuntu-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t want to install Synaptic, you can also run below commands instead in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T):<\/p>\n<p><code>sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install skype<\/code><\/p>\n<p><b>To fix Skype no sound or distorted sound issues occured on Ubuntu 13.10:<\/b><\/p>\n<pre>sudo sed -i 's\/^Exec=.*\/Exec=env PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=30 skype %U\/' \/usr\/share\/applications\/skype.desktop<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quick tip is going to show beginners how to install Skype in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander. Ubuntu 13.10 final will be release on October 17th. Now it&#8217;s in beta 2. If you&#8217;re going to install Skype on Ubuntu Desktop, this tutorial may help. 1.) Skype is available in Canonical Partners repository, so first we&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[342,37],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-skype","tag-ubuntu-13-10"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}