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
>
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>
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.



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