skype for Linux UBUNTU

Tue Jan 20 20:29:01 UTC 2009

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 20:46 +0100, Giuseppe Fuggiano wrote:
> Basically, you shouldn't install applications using deb packages
> directly because, in general, you could miss its dependencies and mess
> up your Ubuntu installation (that's the Windows way ;)

Actually, when you doubleclick a downloaded .deb file, then the gdebi
program will start and offer installation of the .deb file. Gdebi will
also install any required dependencies (as long as they are in the
Ubuntu repositories)