Installing Skype in Manjaro

Question

I'm having some problems installing the skype package on linux Manjaro using the pacman command since I get the following error:

sudo pacman -S skype
error: target not found: skype

I made sure that I have multilib in /etc/pacman.conf enabled as you can see :

[multilib]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

I updated the mirrors with sudo pacman -Syyu and got:

:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                                                 138,9 KiB  3,77M/s 00:00 [#############################################] 100%
 extra                                               1922,3 KiB  3,50M/s 00:01 [#############################################] 100%
 community                                              4,0 MiB  3,47M/s 00:01 [#############################################] 100%
 multilib                                             188,4 KiB  4,28M/s 00:00 [#############################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do

and I still cannot find this package.

What should I do to solve this problem ?

Solution

Skype is not in the Manjaro package repositories, but it is in Arch Linux's AUR or "Arch User Repository". As it says on the AUR website, "AUR packages are user produced content. Any use of the provided files is at your own risk."

On my Manjaro Linux 17.1 machine, I used the following steps to install Skype:

sudo pacman -Syu yaourt

Yaourt allows you to install package from the AUR. The next step is then

yaourt -S skypeforlinux-stable-bin 

Note that there are several AUR packages that have 'skype' in their name. The description for skypeforlinux-stable-bin says

Note that AUR package skypeforlinux-stable-bin is the version Microsoft release as their "stable" version. AUR package skypeforlinux-preview-bin is the version Microsoft release as their preview version and will always be a later version than the stable version. Please don't flag the stable version out of date because you find/read about the later preview version.