Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: synaptic
I installed Intrepid on one of my lab machines today. It needs to use a
proxy server to get updates.
What I did was:
Go to Synaptic, Settings->Preferences->Network
I then entered my proxy server information there. Things seemed to work
since I could then refresh packages, so I closed it.
The update manager then told me I had updates to install, so I clicked on the
update manager. The update manager, however, doesn't use Synaptic's proxy
configuration settings -- it uses its own. So, everything failed, and in order
to fix it I had to go to the Gnome Network Proxy preferences and configure one
there globally (then click "apply system-wide")
This is all less than ideal.
I can't think of a use case where a user would want to have different
proxy configuration for Synaptic and update manager (or command-line
apt-get, for that matter). So, they should use the same setting, in a
standard way. It would be nice if Synaptic made it obvious if it was
using a system-wide setting that Gnome set as well - something like a
checkbox or radio button for "use system-wide proxy settings".
** Affects: apt (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: synaptic (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: apt (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Synaptic, update-manager, and apt-get should share proxy settings
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/283500
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