Comment 3 for bug 1005837

This bug is still present in Ubuntu 12.10.

ii update-notifier-common 0.126 all Files shared between update-notifier and other packages

I get a daily error message that additional data files for flashplugin-installer cannot be downloaded.

Reason for this bug is that the cronjob doesn't honour any system settings for proxy server.

This can be fixed by changing /etc/cron.daily/update-notifier-common to:

#!/bin/sh

set -e

[ -x /usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader ] || exit 0

. /etc/environment
export http_proxy https_proxy

# Try to rerun any package data downloads that failed at package install time.
/usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader