Thread: Nokia Releses OS2008 Beta for the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet
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lbattraw is offline lbattraw
2007-11-27 , 12:54
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#187
Originally Posted by convulted View Post
Any progress on the Skype issue? Should we submit a bugzilla report or something? Was the comment by someone about a version check being implemented incorrectly looked into?

Sorry for such an ugly post, don't have much time to check itT from work
I have found a way to make Skype work, but it's a little tedious if you don't have OpenSSH or Dropbear SSH installed. You'll need to do this as root, either by using ssh root@(your n800 IP) or sudo gainroot from the X-term application (Only works you are in R&D mode). I did an apt-get skype; this will download the deb package to /var/cache/apt/archives (and produce the standard error). You can then install it manually using dpkg:
dpkg -X /var/cache/apt/archives/skype_1.7.62.48.2_armel.deb /

This will extract it to the root directory without running the flawed setup script. Once you do that the Skype application listed under "My Selection" will work. I'm not sure what the setup scripts do but they don't seem to be essential and the next time you install something else they'll run (automatically) without any errors.

Good luck!
Larry