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I'm a new user to Ubuntu and Linux, and I'm trying to install Skype. The software manager is starting but then canceling without any report, I tried doing it through the terminal using:

echo "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu trusty partner" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/canonical_partner.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install skype

And some other methods, but I always get the same error every time:

E: Unable to locate package skype

I checked the Canonical reps, and I really have no idea what am I doing wrong here?

I am using Ubuntu 16.04, and I just tried to follow various threads, but reached the same dead end.

Chai T. Rex
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Shai Fischer
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Skype isn't available from the Ubuntu repositories. To install it on a 64-bit system, open a terminal (press Ctrl+Alt+T) and run:

wget https://repo.skype.com/latest/skypeforlinux-64.deb
sudo apt install ./skypeforlinux-64.deb
rm skypeforlinux-64.deb
Chai T. Rex
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  • stuck on 83% should i start again? – Shai Fischer Jan 20 '18 at 19:06
  • @ShaiFischer If it works, please click the check mark next to this question so that the site knows the question is solved. – Chai T. Rex Jan 20 '18 at 19:09
  • still stuck, 83% and not moving – Shai Fischer Jan 20 '18 at 19:11
  • wget gets stuck sometimes. Press Ctrl+C in that terminal to quit wget, run rm skypeforlinux-64.deb to remove the partial file, and try again. – Chai T. Rex Jan 20 '18 at 19:13
  • Ctrl+C doesnt seems to do anything hehe – Shai Fischer Jan 20 '18 at 20:04
  • Pressing Ctrl+C should show a new prompt (looks like username@computername:~$) just under the wget output. If it does, follow my last comment. If it doesn't, wget must have badly frozen up. To solve that, close the terminal window, telling it that it's OK to kill the running process, then open a new terminal window by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T, run rm skypeforlinux-64.deb to remove the partial file, and try again. – Chai T. Rex Jan 20 '18 at 20:05
  • Thank you for all your devoted help! it works great now! – Shai Fischer Jan 20 '18 at 20:40