Proxy settings in System -> Network Proxy ignored by software update

[Iain Whyte]

pre-requisites:

Ubuntu Dapper Drake.
Proxy that requires authentication.
No direct connection to the internet.

Problem:

In the System Menu -> network proxy you can specify a proxy server manually, and then specify some authenication details.

If you then run Software Update, or Synaptic Package manager - you get '407 Proxy Authentication' errors.

Now, if you set tthe following in apt.conf

Acquire { http { Proxy "http://username:password@proxyurl:proxyport/" }}

And try software update or synaptic package manager, is you still get error 407's.

You must go back to Network Proxy settings and turn off all the settings - setting it back to direct connection to the internet.

Software update and Synaptic package manager now work.

Either Software Update and Synaptic Package manager need to obey Network Proxy properly, including the auth details, or they should show preference to values in apt.conf over those set by Network Proxy.

[Corsaire01 (stephane-tranchemer)]

I have a problem too on Ubuntu 6.06 with Synaptic and Update-manager using a network where a proxy is necessary.

If I start those programs from the menu or in a terminal and Reload to get the updates I get some messages like this :
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/Release.gpg: Connexion à archive.ubuntu.com: 80 (85.133.25.7) impossible. - connect (111 Connection refused)

However if I start them from a terminal like this :
$ export http_proxy=http://proxy:8080
$ synaptic

I have no Pb whatsover.

[Corsaire01 (stephane-tranchemer)]

I forgot to say that of course I did configure the proxy in the gnome settings and in the Synaptic preferences, it still don't work without this export on a terminal.