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I tried installing Skype via the Mageia Control Center, Skype 4.3.0.37-2.mga4.nonfree , nothing happens. It downloads the package get-skype, but then aborts when installing.

So I had a look at the wiki, https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Skype_with_video

And tried the link provided there:

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urpmi \
ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/media/nonfree/release/get-skype-4.3.0.37-5.mga5.nonfree.noarch.rpm

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[root@localhost a2]# urpmi \
> ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/media/nonfree/release/get-skype-4.3.0.37-5.mga5.nonfree.noarch.rpm
 


s'està instal·lant get-skype-4.3.0.37-5.mga5.nonfree.noarch.rpm des de /var/cache/urpmi/partial
S'està preparant...              ######################################
--2014-10-30 15:13:44--  http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-4.3.0.37.tar.bz2
S'està resolent download.skype.com (download.skype.com)... error: El nom o servei no és conegut.
wget: no s'ha pogut resoldre l'adreça del servidor ««download.skype.com»»
Download failed
error: Ha fallat l'scriptlet %pre(get-skype-4.3.0.37-5.mga5.nonfree.noarch),  estat de sortida 1
ERROR: 'script' failed for get-skype-4.3.0.37-5.mga5.nonfree.noarch:
error: get-skype-4.3.0.37-5.mga5.nonfree.noarch: instalar  falló


That's catalan btw. It basically says: downloading skype.... error: The name of the server is unknown. wget: unable to contact the adress of ther server "download.skype.com"

I know that Skype is a pain for all of us, but any help would be appreciated.

The message is pretty clear; you are not resolving the URL "download.skype.com". Why this is happening is bound to be outside of your system.

You might just try again later. If you still cannot connect, you might try setting up a vpn proxy so that your apparent location is outside of your nation; I don't know where you are but possibly your government is blocking connections to skype. You might try connecting to a different DNS server.

FWIW, I just pinged that site from here; it apparently is up and I apparently can reach it.

Thanks. No luck so far yet. I'm in Spain, would be strange if the spanish government is into that.

I can connect to the Skype website, and even download the packages that Skype offers themselves. (http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/ ... -computer/) No luck with those either though. (dependencies problems with the Fedora package, if it would work altogether)

But for the rest I still get the same messages as in my first message.

Nothing we can do about, either network issue on skype end but more likely name resolution error on your end.
Works just fine here, tried multiple times:

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┌─[doktor5000@Mageia4]─[19:01:15]─[~]
└──╼ wget http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-4.3.0.37.tar.bz2
--2014-10-30 19:01:17--  http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-4.3.0.37.tar.bz2
Resolving download.skype.com (download.skype.com)... 62.156.238.17, 62.156.238.6
Connecting to download.skype.com (download.skype.com)|62.156.238.17|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 19310701 (18M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: 'skype-4.3.0.37.tar.bz2'

100%[==============================================================================================================================>] 19,310,701  3.48MB/s   in 6.5s   

2014-10-30 19:01:24 (2.84 MB/s) - 'skype-4.3.0.37.tar.bz2' saved [19310701/19310701]

Sorry for bothering you with this and many thanks for putting me on the right track! Was a problem with the DNS settings of the computer. (previous time I had to manually enter DNS settings was more than 15 years ago, but apparently for an Orange Livebox modem in Spain you have to so as well) Changed the DNS settings and installed without a problem.
Many thanks!