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I tried my best and viewed recommendations and that stuff on how to install Skype and ended up here, is there a problem? Anything?

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  • Skype is already installed? Have you tried calling it from the command line? Just type skype and press enter? It strikes me that what you want is in fact a desktop entry for it, so it appears in the "start" menu?
    – XtrmJosh
    May 23, 2016 at 10:17
  • Can you try running Skype? It seems that Skype is installed.
    – Star OS
    May 23, 2016 at 10:18

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As first it is already installed this is what your machine is telling you, simply run:

skype &

From a terminal:

after you have seen that this is there go back and fix your /etc/apt/sources.list by

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list 

There fnd the lines you added with the wrong path with cannical in it and remove them, after that simply undo the # in front of the lines where it is called right canonical. Save and exit.

After that run:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
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Skype is already installed, I believe what you actually want is a desktop entry for it, so here's a quick introduction for how to create one:

Create a new file in ~/.local/share/applications to make it only available to your user, or /usr/share/applications to make it available to all users. Name it skype.desktop. Now edit the file, and place in it the following:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Skype
Comment=Skype Internet Telephony
Exec=env PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60 skype %U
Icon=skype.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Categories=Network;Application;
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/skype;

Depending on your Desktop Environment, this may or may not work, but you'll need to investigate desktop entries for your environment if you want to solve that...:

Creating a .desktop file for a new application

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/

Keep in mind that this probably isn't the "best" way to get a desktop entry. The better way would likely be to use the software centre where one would be created for you, but I assume you are using this method of installation because the software centre failed you.

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