Skype is a telecommunications application provide features like chat, video between users and group of users. This is available of most of modern operating systems, mobile devices and smart watches. It also provides option to call over the mobile network across the borders.

This tutorial will help you to install Skype on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa Linux system.

Prerequisites

A Ubuntu 20.04 system with Desktop access. You must have sudo privileged account access to your system.

Install Skype on Ubuntu 20.04

You can choose one of the below two methods for installing Skype on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) system. First method will use modern snap packages for installing Skype.

Method 1 – Install Skype with Snap Package

• Launch a terminal by pressing CTRL+ALT+T on your Ubuntu system. Then type below command to install Skype from snap packages.

sudo snap install skype --classic 

• This will take few seconds to complete the installation. Once the command finishes, you can start using Skype.

Method 2 -Install Skype with Debian Package

• This is the traditional method to install packages using the Debian package. Skype official team provides Debian package to download and install on your system.
• Execute the below commands on your terminal to download Skype Debian package and install it.

wget https://repo.skype.com/latest/skypeforlinux-64.deb 
sudo dpkg -i skypeforlinux-64.deb 
In the case of the above command failed to install package due to any dependency run command.sudo apt-get install -f 

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