I followed the instructions here: http://www.howtoforge.com/installation-guide-fedora8-desktop-p9, but I keep on getting this message in 'yum install skype'. Config Error: File contains parsing errors: file://///etc/yum.repos.d/skype.repo [line 2]: name=Skype Repository [line 3]: baseurl=http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/updates/i586/ [line 4]: gpgkey=http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/rpm-public-key.asc [line 5]: gpgcheck=1 [line 6]: enabled=1 I'm using Fedora 8. What could be the problem?
This is the content (same as the one in http://www.howtoforge.com/installation-guide-fedora8-desktop-p9): [skype] name=Skype Repository baseurl=http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/updates/i586/ gpgkey=http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/rpm-public-key.asc gpgcheck=1 enabled=1
Hi, is there an empty line at the top? If yes remove it. The working configuration on my system: [olli@server1 ~]$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/skype.repo [skype] name=Skype Repository baseurl=http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/updates/i586/ gpgkey=http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/rpm-public-key.asc gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 Best regards, Olli