Lucid proxy problem.

[Gone fishing]

I connect to the internet through a proxy. I’ve put the proxy settings in Network Proxy and applied system wide, I’ve also added the proxy settings in synaptic.

OK the problem if I run

sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update

to set up the mediubuntu repositories it fails however if I

sudo –i

then

wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update

it works. If I try and install flashplugin-nonfree using synaptic it fails when it tries to run the script to down load and install the plugin same with

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

however,

sudo –i

then

apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree  works.

Now the bit that baffles me however, sudo apt-get update works fine

Why? is this a bug?

[Gone fishing]

bump

Sorry I just want to know if I'm being stupid before I consider filling a bug report

fails means that it fails to use the proxy settings and I get a resolve error for eg

unable to resolve host address `www.medibuntu.org'

[Krieg]

I have the same problem. wget gives you problems because the environment variable "no_proxy" has a trailing comma at the end, but even when you get wget to work apt-get will not use the proxy settings.

To make things worse, now Synaptic has its own proxy setting, I don't know why, but it is like that. After setting the proxy parameters in Synaptic it will work if you use Synaptic but the command line (apt-get) will still not work.

Frustrating. An LTS that does not let you install packages if you are behind a proxy.

[jonvel]

It's not just a wget problem. It seems hit-or-miss as to whether the proxy settings are observed. I've set http_proxy in various places, I've manually set the proxy settings in others.

I've also set the System -> Preferences -> Network Proxy
to what it's supposed to be, and none of it works. I can't get Firefox to work with "use system settings". I can't get Google Chrome to work at all with that.

I don't remember having this many issues with 9.10...

[Krieg]

OK, I managed to get apt-get to use the proxy. I went to: System / Preferences / Network Proxy and clicked on "Apply System Wide".

It seems we are going more into the MS Windows "OK vs Apply" way.

The variable $http_proxy is not respected. Quite complicated when you do not have GUI

[stats]

I have the same issue as Gone Fishing. I have set proxy settings in .bashrc for user and root, and have also applied them system-wide.

I have noticed that when I run

sudo command

it fails to use the proxy. running the same command as user and as root work fine.
sudo echo $http_proxy however returns the correct value.

This should be reported as a bug. Things work fine in 9.10

[vredley]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...et/+bug/554068

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...do/+bug/556293

Please add a 'me too'.

[appier]

Same problem here. I am also having trouble getting it to work with:

export http_proxy="http://usernameassword@my.proxy.orgort"

It worked with previous releases.

[uwegeercken]

I had the same problem that I cannot use agt-get in the terminal and it was definitely working before by setting the proxy and user authentication in System / Preferences / Network Proxy.

now this worked for me:

I added:

Acquire::http:roxy "http://spi\ug010903:Lemmy4Me@proxy.swissport.aero:8080/";

to:

/etc/apt/apt.conf

rgds,

uwe

[appier]

I added:

Acquire::http:roxy "http://spi\ug010903:Lemmy4Me@proxy.swissport.aero:8080/";

to:

/etc/apt/apt.conf

This worked for me as well. Thanks!