Instalar Skype con un paquete deb de debian o ubuntu

Vamos a la web y lo descargamos, luego abrimos una consola y como root:

root@ilorenzo:/home/ilorenzo/Downloads# dpkg -i skype-debian_4.0.0.8-1_i386.deb

Selecting previously unselected package skype.

(Reading database ... 158483 files and directories currently installed.)

Unpacking skype (from skype-debian_4.0.0.8-1_i386.deb) ...

Setting up skype (4.0.0.8-1) ...

Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...

Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...

Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...

root@ilorenzo:/home/ilorenzo/Downloads#

Vamos a buscarlo en las utilidades del sistema y ya esta: