Fesity - Synaptic,Add/Remove Programs Installation and Proxy Authentication

[Chakkaradeep]

Binary package hint: synaptic

Hi All,

I dont know why, but there is no solution for this yet !

I connect to internet through Proxy Authentication. I made apt-get to work with this by having the apt.conf at /etc/apt

chaks@chaks-laptop:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://uname:<email address hidden>";
Acquire::ftp::Proxy "ftp://uname:<email address hidden>";

And my http_proxy and ftp_proxy variables to set too,

http_proxy=http://uname:<email address hidden>
ftp_proxy=ftp://uname:<email address hidden>

To even be more safe, I have set the system wide proxy settings in System->Preferences->Network Proxy

Now, In Synaptic, I have set the Proxy again in the Preferences->Network

After all these settings change, Synaptic does not work . It fails to download packages or perform Reload and throws error that Proxy Authentication is needed

apt-get works fine.

One weird thing what I found is, If you open synaptic as sudo synaptic it works but not as gksu or gksudo synaptic ! Why is gksu or gksudo does not recognize proxy settings ???

And also I couldnt install any application via Add/Remove Applications as that too reports that authentication is required.

Is there any solution for this ? I know there is a bug associated with this(its with edgy), but there is no solution and thats the reason I have filed again under Feisty.

[Dan O'Huiginn (daniel-ohuiginn)]

Thanks for your report. However, please do not set the status to confirmed for bugs that you have reported yourself.