Which repo are you downloading from? I usually download from skype home page and rpm -i skype...rpm having satisfied all dependencies first? Stuart Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone -----Original Message----- From: C <smaug42@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 13:45:11 To: openSUSE<opensuse@opensuse.org> Subject: [opensuse] Cannot install Skype -- cpio: read failed - Bad file descriptor Hmmm this is a new one. On a reasonably fresh default install of openSUSE 11.4/KDE4.6, I've been trying without success to install Skype. $ zypper install skype-2.2.0.25-suse.i586.rpm Loading repository data... Reading installed packages... Resolving package dependencies... The following NEW package is going to be installed: skype 1 new package to install. Overall download size: 5.6 MiB. After the operation, additional 27.4 MiB will be used. Continue? [y/n/?] (y): y Retrieving package skype-2.2.0.25-suse111.i586 (1/1), 5.6 MiB (27.4 MiB unpacked) Retrieving package skype-2.2.0.25-suse111.i586 (1/1), 5.6 MiB (27.4 MiB unpacked) Installing: skype-2.2.0.25-suse111 [error] Installation of skype-2.2.0.25-suse111 failed: (with --nodeps --force) Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/skype;4d9da18d: cpio: read failed - Bad file descriptor Is this a broken package from the Skype guys? or more likely something broken somewhere else on my system? C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org