Installer doesn't support corporate firewalls
Bug #131421 reported by
Mark Eaton
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
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Wishlist
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Bug Description
When performing an install of either ubuntu or kubuntu and you are behind a corporate firewall, the install will hang when it gets to the stage of scanning mirrors. This is because you need to setup a http proxy before apt can work. The manual work around of opening a terminal exporting http_proxy and manually running the installer from the command line is rather crude. It would be a simple case for the installer to allow the user to enter in a proxy server and have it all work.
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importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
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status: | New → Confirmed |
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Alternative workaround is to add proxy configuration to apt, e.g. /target/ etc/apt/ apt.conf
Acquire: :http:: Proxy "http:// yourproxyaddres s:proxyport";
Then after the next timeout round the configuration will be re-read and the proxy used. Just had this experience with the Ubuntu 7.10 RC installer.