I have tried installing and uninstalling skype, and I still can´t get it to run on 11.10. It ran on the earlier version of Ubuntu.

I tried going to the terminal, changing to /user/share and typing in skype. It (like the desktop menu) prompts me for my name and password, but never logs on. It does come up with a programming error as such:

Fatal: ASSERT: "interface->childCount() == children.count()" in file adaptor.cpp, line 200

My knowledge of Linux programming is zelch. I only see a pointer comparison of childcount to count.

Is there something I can do? Will skype run on 11.10? Am I setting it up, or running it wrong?

Skype runs fine on 11.10.

Do: 'sudo apt-get purge skype', go to Skype website, select the correct deb file to download (Ubuntu 10.4+ <correct architecrure>, download it and do 'sudo dpkg -i skype<...>.deb'. Report if you get any errors.

(Also "I tried going to the terminal, changing to /user/share and typing in skype" - the bolded part does not make any sense to me unless you have some non-standard install.)

thank you very much for your quick response. . . I got the following errors:

typing skype from the command line brings up the login screen. I enter my data,
and the following happens: the box disappears as if it errors out and exits out of a program with exit(1). nothing happens.