From: prakhar_aaidu16@hotmail.com
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Problem with apt-get --
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:42:21 +0530
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:38:41
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From: sjoerd@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl
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Subject: Re: Problem with apt-get --
PRAKHAR gaur schreef:
>>>You might also add:
>>>export ftp_proxy=$http_proxy
>>
>> Ok.
>>
>> But now there is a slight problem, when ever I use "sudo apt-get update",
>> it does not work. but if I become root first, using "su", and then so the same thing, it works.
>> I tried closing all the terminals and opening them again, didn't work.
>Can you do a "echo $http_proxy" both as root and as user? I guess
>$http_proxy isn't set properly for your user (and sudo uses user-values
>for its config)
>Sjoerd
prakhar@ibab-stud021:~$ echo $http_proxy
http://proxy.ibab.ac.in:3128/
prakhar@ibab-stud021:~$ su -
Password:
ibab-stud021:~# echo $http_proxy
ibab-stud021:~# exit
logout
prakhar@ibab-stud021:~$ su
Password:
ibab-stud021:/home/prakhar# echo $http_proxy
http://proxy.ibab.ac.in:3128/
Notice the difference of output between "su -" and "su". I had read that "su -" loads that root user environment,
and just "su" works with the current user environment only.
Additionally to answer your query, in both user and root the $http_proxy variable is set correctly.
I have done the same modifications to the user ~/.bashrc file, ie. added the line
export http_proxy="http://proxy.ibab.ac.in:3128/"
Well that's what all I did, please help me out.
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Dear All,
Have a interesting update and potentially the solution of the problem. I have another system running Debian 5.0.5
,same hard ware configuration.
It had the same problem, while reading about apt on Wikipedia, got to know about the command apt-config dump
and the file "/etc/apt/apt.conf"
I ran the command on the other system, and the proxy was entered incorrectly(I did not do that)
I checked out the file "apt.conf" on my other system, it had only one line,
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://ibab@ibab:3128";
Hence I corrected it to,
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://ibab.ac.in:@proxy.ibab.ac.in:3128";
and now every thing is fine.
But funnily enough, when tryiny to correct the same file on my own system,
There was no "/etc/apt/apt.conf" file.
Hence created that file and just put the above line in it.
apt-get is working fine now.
Wonder why there was no "/etc/apt/apt.conf" file present???
Thanks to everyone for the help,
Prakhar Gaur
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