Newbie's troubles with Fedora

[Simon Andrews]

On 12 Oct 2009, at 18:02, Paul Williams wrote:

> As for Skype, I had already found the page you gave me the link to,  
> and I had already tried those few lines, but on the very first one I  
> got an error message: Failed to contact configuration server; some  
> possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for  
> ORBit, or you have stale NFS due to a system crash etc etc.

I just tried the instructions there and I saw the same errors, but  
gedit opened up OK despite them, and I got skype installed really  
easily.  When you tried did the gedit window not open up?  If so you  
could create the skpe.repo file in your home directory and then copy  
it to the correct directory as root.


> You will appreciate that I didn't find that very helpful. However I  
> was connecting to the net, so I don't see why there was no contact  
> with config server.

It's talking about a local server on your machine, not something on  
the net.


> So I'm stuck. When are you next going to CB2?

The next planned meeting will be the second Sunday of November (8th),  
unless anyone is keen enough they want to arrange anything before that.

Simon.