I am using kubuntu 12.04 but it should be a cross platform problem I think.
The problem I had was that the proxy was not letting me get online. I changed the proxy settings via the network settings GUI and it was all fine for rekonq web browser but muon (the package manager) did not update . Of course it did not tell me it was the proxy setting (I do not think it could tell me) it just told me that I could not reach such and such web pages. I finally came up the solution: looking up in askubuntu [1] it seems I need my username and password on a plain text file the /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ Is this solution the best? is there a more elegant solution? Also, it keeps asking me for my username and password to use the web browser but does not do this for package manager. I much rather have it ask me for username and password on both aplications. Rather than having my username and password written in plain text. Or is this the normal way things work and I should not be too fussed about it? Also, when using apt-get it finds the packages fine now but it is telling me that some of the files are not authentificated and that I should not trust them. It is a fresh install and I have not set any PPA. I was only installing gimp and gwyddion which normally do not give me any problems. Thanks for any pointers! [1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/23666/apt-get-does-not-work-with-proxy -- Andrés Muñiz-Piniella -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
