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  1. Bug #466142
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Comment 9 for bug 466142

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Bela Lubkin (filbo) wrote :

Hi --

I have a variant of this bug. I've installed the 1.1.0~ppa1 update and (as I suspected) it didn't fix my issue.

The issue is that software-center does not pass system-wide proxy settings to its subprocesses. This means that packages which are wrappers for alternative download methods still fail.

Two examples of such packages are flashplugin-installer and ttf-mscorefonts-installer.

Attached (evidence.tar.gz) is some terminal output, a window shot of a stuck software-center process, and a window shot of gconf-editor showing the proxy config.

software-center is perfectly happy to install normal packages; in fact it had to download flashplugin-installer.deb to get as far as it did.

The actual bug here might arguably be in some other layer -- debconf, aptd, dpkg itself?, or the individual packages (flashplug-installer). Perhaps it should even be addressed in multiple places. I encountered it with software-center so that's where I'm injecting this.