Bev
I have not installed skype, bu how hard can it be ? :)
<< copy the binary to /usr/bin
get a root terminal session up and follow the below
cp skype.bin /usr/bin ( where skype.bin if the executable file )
If you dont know which it is then 'type file *' and the one saying executable is the one. ie
keith@ubuntu:/usr/bin$ file zip zip: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.15, stripped keith@ubuntu:/usr/bin$
It might need the executable flags set too. See below
keith@ubuntu:/usr/bin$ ls -al zip -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 188312 2010-02-15 17:38 zip keith@ubuntu:/usr/bin$
so to add these type
chmod a_x skype.bin
my example keith@ubuntu:/usr/bin$ cd /tmp keith@ubuntu:/tmp$ touch me keith@ubuntu:/tmp$ ls -al me -rw-r--r-- 1 keith keith 0 2011-04-22 07:46 me keith@ubuntu:/tmp$ chmod a+x me keith@ubuntu:/tmp$ ls -al me -rwxr-xr-x 1 keith keith 0 2011-04-22 07:46 me keith@ubuntu:/tmp$
and install /sounds /lang and /avatars in /usr/share/skypedirectory >>
mkdir /usr/share/skypedirector mkdir /sounds cp -r where_skype_extracted/sounds/* /usr/share/skypedirector
then repeat the above for the other folders too.
HTH Keith