No, I cannot use apt-get behind my proxy at all. I use (and have been using for this four years, i.e. from Ubuntu 7.04 which was the first Ubuntu I used here at my current work on desktop) Synaptic which can handle proxy authentication correctly, except when some package, such as the flash-installer, needs to download some resources during postinst configuration—that doesn't work either and needs to be done manually. Unfortunately Synaptic doesn't know which packages are missing for completing the language support or installing additional drivers after the installation of the system.
BTW, I should perhaps add that I have set my proxy and proxy user and password also in my global wgetrc file (in /etc). It works OK when I try to download something under user that doesn't have this set in his local wgetrc, but it still doesn't work for apt-get or postinst resource downloading mentioned above. I suppose this bug (that I've just found) is related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wget/+bug/232469 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/783409 Title: Proxy authentication not available to updater -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
