Why Skype doesn't work in Quantal

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Published on 2012-10-31T14:50:13Z Indexed on 2012/10/31 17:13 UTC
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Since updating to Quantal Skype doesn't work and I get this error when updating:

W:GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net quantal Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY F6A071ABEE5D5BA2
W:Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/commercial-ppa-uploaders/skype/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/source/Sources  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.191 80]
W:Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/commercial-ppa-uploaders/skype/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.191 80]
W:Failed to fetch http://archive.canonical.com/commercial-ppa-uploaders/skype/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.191 80]
E:Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

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