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  1. Bug #105415
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 105415

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Chakkaradeep (chakkaradeep) wrote :

I connect to internet through Proxy Authentication. I made apt-get to work with this by having the apt.conf at /etc/apt

chaks@chaks-laptop:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://<email address hidden>";
Acquire::ftp::Proxy "ftp://<email address hidden>";
And my http_proxy and ftp_proxy variables to set too,

http_proxy=http://<email address hidden>
ftp_proxy=ftp://<email address hidden>
To even be more safe, I have set the system wide proxy settings in System->Preferences->Network Proxy

Now, In Synaptic, I have set the Proxy again in the Preferences->Network

After all these settings change, Synaptic does not work . It fails to download packages or perform Reload and throws error that Proxy Authentication is needed

apt-get works fine.

And as said in the bug description, If you open synaptic as sudo synaptic it works but not as gksu or gksudo synaptic ! Why is gksu or gksudo does not recognize proxy settings