This is the Skype API Plugin for Pidgin/libpurple/Adium. If you’re already running Skype, you can have your Skype contacts displayed with your Pidgin/libpurple/Adium contacts. It is intended as a complete replacement for the Skype user interface, hopefully everything you can do in Skype you can do with this plugin.

Install Skype API Plugin for Pidgin in Ubuntu

First you need to download the plugin using the following command

wget http://eion.robbmob.com/skype4pidgin.deb

Now you should have skype4pidgin.deb package.Install this .deb package using the following command

sudo dpkg -i skype4pidgin.deb

or you can download the following libskype.so file to the plugins directory, normally /usr/lib/purple-2/ or ~/.purple/plugins

For 32 bit users download this

wget http://eion.robbmob.com/libskype.so

For 64 bit users download this

wget http://eion.robbmob.com/libskype64.so

This will complete the installation.After installation you need to restart Pidgin! You will then have a skype option enabled.