According to this thread on the Skype forums:
"yum/apt repositories - please test" posted by 'terminus', a member of the 'Skype staff'
They now have an official Skype apt source for Skype for Linux. From the above linked post, here's the details on the apt repository:
Edit: I just added it to my sources.list and it works fine.Using Skype's apt repository
Simply add the following line to your sources.list file (usually /etc/apt/sources.list):
Now you can use apt-get update to sync to latest repository and then apt-get install skype to install Skype on your machines.Code:deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free
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