I am just wondering if there is a way to install skype on linux, I know there is something you can download from MS, but I would like to use a trusted repo.
Also, teamspeak is in much the same boat, how should I go about finding these things?
And how should I go about looking for these things in the future?
I think you should really just use google to search for how to install stuff you want. For skype, I usually just download it from my distro's repositories. I haven't tried to install teamspeak so I don't know about that.
In reference to the repeated google/search the forum responses, so when I ask for clarification on make error output that is different than a user new to the platform about how to install software... explain to me how is this different??? Surely I could google search that as well but because it's not perceived as a "newb" question that it is okay?
to save him some time. Goto Skype's site, download the apropriate file from the given drop down, open the skype*.deb file, click install let it finish, and then search your apps for it.
Without knowing which distro your using its hard to give advice.
Most of the time you should always use the repos available. There are normally good 3rd party repos available for things like teamspeak if its not on your distroa main one. As for trust.. It depends on the distro. Fedora has rpmfusion which is mature and well trusted. Ubuntu has.. I'm not even sure. It has a bunch of ppas but I don't know of a large proper 3rd party repos.
Remember you can always search the main repos on the CLI there's apt-get cache package and on fedora there's dnf search package
Distros also have there repos online to search which you can usually look up easy enough on google