Ubuntu
wget package

  1. Bug #232469
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 232469

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Daniel (daniel-kabs) wrote : Re: Synaptic does not use proxy in some cases

 Kovács Zoltán wrote on 2008-11-29: (permalink)
>If the proxy setting is configured well in apt (which also means synaptic is configured properly) then
> all problematic packages will be installed automagically.

Not with my system. I was upgradingu Ubuntu 8.04.1 to 8.04.2 today.

Proxy is configured in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10proxy

  Acquire::http::Proxy "http://squid:8000";

apt-get uses this proxy configuratoin successfully but when flashplugin-nonfree is trying to download a file from macromedia.com using wget, it fails with timeouts.

I checked "apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree" using "ps": When installing the package flashplugin-nonfree, a file /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/wgetrc is created that does *not* contain proxy configuration from apt. So when wget is called, the environment variable WGETRC is set to the wgetrc file and the file can not be retrieved from macromedia.com. Even worse, root's .wgetrc is overruled.