Hello all.

A while ago I downloaded a repository description for yum, as follows:


Since quite a while the gpgkey seems to be missing from the Skype website, making updates via yum impossible. Is there any particular reason for this? If it's an error, it would be nice to correct it.

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Fortunately Skype deposited the key with a PGP key server.

Try this (you'll need to be root or use sudo to do this):
gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0xd66b746e
gpg --textmode -a --export 0xd66b746e > /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-skype

Then change the gpgkey=... line in /etc/yum.repos.d/skype.repo (or whatever you called the repo definition file) to:
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-skype

The repository should now work with yum.

Not only is the link

http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/rpm-public-key.asc

for the GPG key no longer working, but there used to be a link

http://skype.com/download/skype/linux/repositories.html

listing the repositories which also no longer works. It seems that Skype is "outsourcing" their documentation - people have to Google for third-party sites to find it. Ideally Skype would create a skype-release RPM (and link to it from their own site) which would install both the GPG file in /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/ and also the skype.repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d/. Then one could just install this RPM and the repo would be set up. Other repos like Adobe, Livna already do this. Unfortunately, although creating the spec file is trivial, only Skype can sign the RPM, so this can't be outsourced.

In the meantime, the best guide for setting up the repo I've seen is

http://fedorasolved.org/multimedia-solutio...stalling-skype/

I checked and found that copies of both of the above pages are still available at the "Wayback Machine" at

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

For example

http://web.archive.org/web/20071111194152r...-public-key.asc

and

http://web.archive.org/web/20071206183549/...positories.html

Now if only someone at Skype could be bothered to recreate these in their original locations.