Bug 12668

Local problem. Check your DNS servers, it seems they are unable to resolve download.skype.com.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => mageia
Resolution: (none) => INVALID

(In reply to Sander Lepik from comment #1)
> Local problem. Check your DNS servers, it seems they are unable to resolve
> download.skype.com.

It's not a problem of DNS, but the URL download.skype.com no longer exists: it's replaced by http://www.skype.com/fr/download-skype/skype-for-computer/
you have to change it in the package get-skype
Furthermore, even skype-4.2.0.13.tar.bz2, which fine works with mageia2.x86_64 and mageia3.x86_64 doesn't work at all under mageia4.x86_64 (no sound).
It's why I wish that mageia becomes a rolling release distrib, since at each new versions issues appear.

Obtaining "a page not found" and then a redirection does not mean than the url in the script does not work.

Here it works fine too.

Source RPM: http://mirrors.mageia.org/api/mageia.4.x86_64.list => (none)

http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-4.2.0.11.tar.bz2 works fine here!

wget : impossible de résoudre l'adresse de l'hôte «download.skype.com» - using google translate it renders to "impossible to resolve host address "download.skype.com""

That pretty much means that your DNS is faulty.

(In reply to Sander Lepik from comment #4)
> http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-4.2.0.11.tar.bz2 works fine here!
> 
> wget : impossible de résoudre l'adresse de l'hôte «download.skype.com» -
> using google translate it renders to "impossible to resolve host address
> "download.skype.com""
> 
> That pretty much means that your DNS is faulty.

OK, and what I have to do to fix it? 
here is my /etc/nsswitch.conf file:
# /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
# An example Name Service Switch config file. This file should be
# sorted with the most-used services at the beginning.
#
# The entry '[NOTFOUND=return]' means that the search for an
# entry should stop if the search in the previous entry turned
# up nothing. Note that if the search failed due to some other reason
# (like no NIS server responding) then the search continues with the
# next entry.
#
# Legal entries are:
#
#       compat                  Use compatibility setup
#       nisplus or nis+         Use NIS+ (NIS version 3)
#       nis or yp               Use NIS (NIS version 2), also called YP
#       dns                     Use DNS (Domain Name Service)
#       files                   Use the local files
#       db                      Use the local database (.db) files
#       [NOTFOUND=return]       Stop searching if not found so far
#
# For more information, please read the nsswitch.conf.5 manual page.
#

# passwd: files nis
# shadow: files nis
# group:  files nis

passwd:		files
shadow:		files
group:		files

hosts:  	 mdns4_minimal files nis dns myhostname  
networks:	files

services:	files
protocols:	files
rpc:		files
ethers:		files
netmasks:	files
netgroup:	files
publickey:	files

bootparams:	files
automount:	files
aliases:	files

Is it OK?
Thank you for replying.

(In reply to Sander Lepik from comment #4)
> http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-4.2.0.11.tar.bz2 works fine here!
> 
> wget : impossible de résoudre l'adresse de l'hôte «download.skype.com» -
> using google translate it renders to "impossible to resolve host address
> "download.skype.com""
> 
> That pretty much means that your DNS is faulty.

I finally successfully installed get-skype4.2.0.11-5.mga4.nonfree.noarch with mageia-control-center, without host resolving problem.
But there is no sound at all (see comment 2) although libpulseaudio0 is installed.
(see https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1121)

Please open a new bug report for the sound problem, it will be easier to track. Thanks :)

CC: (none) => stormi

(In reply to Samuel VERSCHELDE from comment #7)
> Please open a new bug report for the sound problem, it will be easier to
> track. Thanks :)

Done: bug 12681