On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 07:47 +0000, Stuart Bird wrote: > Hi > > I am running a recent install of Ubuntu 8.10 x64 on a Dell XPS M1330 > which I use both at work and at home. The issue I am having is that > the works network is behind a proxy but the home one is not. I use a > wired connection (eth0) when at work and the wi-fi (wlan0) when at > home. I can get internet access at home by knocking off the proxy > settings in Firefox and in the preferences menu, but cannot get > synaptic or apt-get to work because it is looking for the works proxy. > > I have looked high and low but cannot find where the proxy details are > set for synaptic/apt. > > Is there a straight forward way of getting this set up to work > properly. > > Thanks in advance. > > Stu
Hi Stu, I think synaptic/apt from the gnome menu use the system proxy (system -> Preferences -> Network Proxy). If you're using them from the command line you need to set the http_proxy environment variable: export http_proxy=http://yourproxy.com:proxy_port I frequently use the command line method at uni. Hope that helps! -Matt Daubney -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
