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    Red face Can't download skype?

    Hi, I'm literally about a week into using Linux, and I'm using Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Now, pardon me, I'm new to this, so I won't be using any kind of correct terminology or anything.

    I've been having so many problems, but I'll ignore most of them for now. I want to download Skype, really bad.

    However, I downloaded it, and tried installing it through... er, Ubuntu Software Center. Yeah. And it went to almost finished but never completely finished installing. I had it sitting for about five hours, and nothing.



    that's pretty much what it looked like for a few hours.

    I'm kind of desperate and really frustrated.

    (Also, if anyone wants to help me now that I have your attention, it takes for-freaking-ever to switch in between applications. Is there a reason for this, or is it just because I'm on a netbook with not much memory?)


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    Re: Can't download skype?

    Quote Originally Posted by maggirl93 View Post
    Hi, I'm literally about a week into using Linux, and I'm using Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Now, pardon me, I'm new to this, so I won't be using any kind of correct terminology or anything.

    I've been having so many problems, but I'll ignore most of them for now. I want to download Skype, really bad.

    However, I downloaded it, and tried installing it through... er, Ubuntu Software Center. Yeah. And it went to almost finished but never completely finished installing. I had it sitting for about five hours, and nothing.



    that's pretty much what it looked like for a few hours.

    I'm kind of desperate and really frustrated.

    (Also, if anyone wants to help me now that I have your attention, it takes for-freaking-ever to switch in between applications. Is there a reason for this, or is it just because I'm on a netbook with not much memory?)


    Try and install by downloading it from the site.

    Or if you want you can try and install it from terminal do this by:

    sudo apt-get install skype that should install it.

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