Behind corporate proxy. Proxy configuration.

[Andrey Nauman]

It's absolutely not obvious for beginner and also inconsistant to configure proxy server in Synaptic (obviously no logical link for newby between this two tools). More or less obvious choice is System -> .. -> Proxy Service main menu entry. But that does not lead to proxy parameters configuration for this tool.

Seems also Synaptic does not support authenticating proxy. Not asking for MS proxies... Firefox can...

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

I'm a little unsure what the last paragraph is saying. Are you saying:
"Why doesn't synaptic support basic proxies?" or
"Why doesn't synaptic support NTLM (MS) proxies?" or
"Why doesn't synaptic support any authenticating proxies?"

Firefox has its own code for dealing with proxies and consequently does its own thing seperate from any other program.

At any rate, that last bit sounds like this issue is two bugs rather one - "Synaptic should default to using GNOME proxy configuration settings" (perhaps with an option to use its own) and "Synaptic should support authenticating proxies".

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

This is similar to bug #2758

[Andrey Nauman (andrey-nauman)]

Hi Sitsofe,
yes, you are correctly "translated" my post. Sorry.

I'd rephrase my claim then (from newbie stand point) as:
1) "Add Applications" program should honor user's GNOME proxy configuration settings". (Why shoud first timers think of it as a front end to some other piece of software?...). I believe novice users should not dig into Synaptic configuration right from the begining.
2) "Authenticating proxies also should be supported." Including user/password and Microsoft ones (NTLM(?), Kerberos(?)). Currently I have to set stand-alone proxy which can NTLM-authenticate to MS proxy. Not every regular user can come to and set this workaround.

Thank you.

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

Does apt makes use of the HTTP_PROXY environment? we could get the proxy from gconf and export the HTTP_PROXY before running gksu synaptic.

Regards,

Sebastian

[Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount)]

IMHO, must be marked as a dup of #2758 under the generic title : "proxy configuration for apt-related applications"