msttcorefonts cannot install behind authenticating proxy
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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msttcorefonts (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: msttcorefonts
This problem is similar to #56880, but I believe it is a distinct problem.
This is occurring with gutsy, msttcorefonts 2.2.
I operate behind an authenticating proxy. I have set http_proxy to an appropriate value of the form http://
For msttcorefonts (and some other packages), installation fails during the setup phase. The problem is in the postinstall script. In particular, wget is not parsing the http_proxy variable correctly:
conway@antisense:~$ wget http://
Error parsing proxy URL http://
conway@antisense:~$
So, it looks like either a bug in the postinstall script, which fails to take into account the limitations of wget, or a bug in wget which fails to parse the value of http_proxy correctly.
This should be fixed now in precise, which uses update-notifier and python's urllib with apt proxy settings instead of wget.