On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Vipin Balachandran <[email protected]>wrote:
> The proxy server address u may be using should be wrong. > > Use http_proxy=http://username:[email protected]:3128 > As said by sumit, u hav to put this in ur ~/.bashrc. Type gedit ~/.bashrc > and append the above to the end of the file. > > I would not recommend this way because the anyone who opens the bashrc file > can c ur pass. Instead try setting the proxy in synaptic itself. > > In synaptic: > Go to Settings->Preferences. > Take Network tab. > Select manual proxy configuration > Enter 10.10.3.14 as HTTP proxy and FTP proxy, port number is 3128 for both > Click on Authentication,give ur id and password. > Click ok->ok > > This should work. > > Regards, > Vipin Balachandran > C.Tech > IIT Delhi > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > why do you not use IIT repo, for that no need to setup proxy, IIT proxy has restriction of 100MB/day, if you are using official ubuntu repo then update/installation will eat up your proxy quota. so use IIT repo, by this you can install/update packages at speed of 1MB/s in Hostel and 10MB/s in institute area. kindly see http://www.lug-iitd.org/Articles/Debian_Help#Adding_Ubuntu_9.10_Repo_from_CSE if you are using Ubuntu 9.10 then follow the steps 1. download the attached file to your Desktop. 2. open the teminal form Application >> Accessories >> terminal 3. give the commands cd /etc/apt sudo mv sources.list sources.list.bak sudo cp ~/Desktop/sources.list . export http_proxy="" export ftp_proxy="" sudo apt-get update 4. you have done now you can use synaptic package manager, dont set proxy system wide or in the synaptic package manger. -- Alok Singh Mahor CSE, IIT Delhi www.alokmahor.tk Join the next generation of computing, Open Source, and Linux/GNU! -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
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