On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 6:47 PM, apvr <[email protected]> wrote: > I am using Ubuntu 11.04. > I am behind a proxy with authentication to connect to the Internet. I > had set up the system-wide proxy via System Settings. But Synaptic > Package Manager did not take the proxy. So I configured the settings > in the Synaptic for the proxy and auth. It worked. > > Now the proxy's username and password got changed. I updated the > proxy and auth in both Synaptic and System-wide settings. But when I > reload or install any packages in Synaptic, it is now throwing this error. > > "Failed to fetch http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/natty/main/ > binary-i386/Packages 407 Proxy Authentication Required" > > Then I tried setting the http, ftp and https proxies in /etc/apt/apt.conf > file in the format. > Acquire::http::Proxy "http://username:password@proxy:port/";; > Acquire::ftp::Proxy "ftp://username:password@proxy:port/";; > Acquire::https::Proxy "https://username:password@proxy:port/";; > > Now I tried apt-get install. It also threw the same error. > > Note that there is no problem with the proxy server, as I am able to > access the Internet via Firefox. > > Could anyone help on this ?
Does apt-get work from command line? Did you check again if you have updated username and password in Synaptic? Also, have you checked for typos? -- With Regards, Mehul Ved _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
