Not only synaptic is affected, but apt also in general. In fact, these packages (msttcorefonts, flashplugin-nonfree and others) use wget to download their own special files from the internet. I can consider that these packages are not prepared for handling bad wget/apt communication --- flashplugin-nonfree waits for available connection forever, however msttcorefonts gives up trying after a specific timeout.
My idea for solution is: Fix ALL .deb packages (postinst part) to set the http_proxy environment variable from apt's setting (if it is defined). If the proxy setting is configured well in apt (which also means synaptic is configured properly) then all problematic packages will be installed automagically. -- Synaptic does not use proxy in some cases https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/232469 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
