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Skype 2.0 for Linux has been released on March 13, 2008. So, this is not a something new anymore.

Today we’re proud to announce the general release of video calls in Skype 2.0 for Linux. As you may already know, the best things in life are often free and now you can make (and receive) free, great quality video calls on Linux.

Last week, I didn’t have time to install Skype 2.0 since I was busy doing my assignments and project. So today, when I power up my laptop and boot to Ubuntu, the update manager is notifying me that there are software updates available. I clicked on the notify icon and the update manager windows showed up. I looked on the list of updates available and Skype was in there. So I just clicked on install updates. The system started installing the updates and after a while, I got this error.

E:/var/cache/apt/archives/skype-common_2.0.0.63-0medibuntu0.7.10.1_all.deb:trying to overwrite `/etc/dbus-1/system.d/skype.conf’, which is also in package skype

So, I search on the internet and this is the way to solve this problem.

First, you need to totally remove all skype installations:

sudo apt-get remove skype*

then delete the .Skype directory

rm -r ~/.Skype

then you can install Skype 2.0

sudo apt-get install skype

If you never install Skype before and want to used Skype, you can go to this page and download the file according to your operating system.

Here is the list of features which Skype has.

• Free video call with anyone in your contact list.
• Group chat with up to 150 people.
• Conference call with up to 25 others.