Comment 6 for bug 232469

This bug has a better title, but the longest discussion of this bug (now marked as a duplicate of this one, despite being raised earlier) is surely https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/45722. That one was raised in early 2006, while this one implies the bug is relatively new (this year, over two years after the original).

And yet, this is still a serious issue - despite modifying my /etc/wgetrc, Synpatic often fails to download when using a proxy - especially when using NTLM authentication. I'm also still not clear why we have this Gnome app, Synaptic, which not only fails to use the Gnome provided proxy applet (preferences/Network Proxy), but also has it's own settings for Proxy, which it ignores.

This is a serious bug which massively hampers the adoption of Ubuntu as a corporate desktop in the vast majority of corporate environments. At least, I don't know of many large organisations that don't try to reduce internet bandwidth (and engage porn filtering - Websense, Bluecoat, Surf Control, etc) by deploying a proxy server, a proxy cluster or a proxy chain.