Which repo are you downloading from?
I usually download from skype home page and rpm -i skype...rpm having satisfied all dependencies first?
Stuart
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-----Original Message-----
From: C
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 13:45:11
To: openSUSE
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.
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