software updater does not use proxy settings

[Noel Grandin]

I set the proxy settings in the Network settings panel.

But the Software Updater does not appear to respect those settings.

This is Ubuntu 22.04 installed from the Desktop ISO

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[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

These settings are for the user account, for package management you likely want to configure Acquire::http::Proxy option in apt.conf or an apt.conf.d snippet.

[Noel Grandin (noelgrandin)]

Thanks Julian. Yes, I can configure the proxy for apt like that.

But all the other network settings are in the settings panel, and Linux doesn't seem to have a problem configuring DHCP and whatnot there, so it is a little weird that we can't do the proxy there as well.