[ubuntu-in] 407 proxy authentication failure in Ubuntu software centre and IM even after applying systemwide proxy

[Onkar Shinde]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Ravi Joshi <ravi.joshi53 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Hi ,
>          i have recently install ubuntu 9.10 .To update ubuntu i apply proxy setting in network proxy and synaptic manager also. Then i want to install Netbeans IDE for java . For that i open my terminal and write command sudo apt-get install netbeans ...But it says some error like this 407 proxy authentication failure .after that i open ubuntu software center to install same application but here also same message is being displayed.
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>           One thing i observe that i can surf the net using firefox and i can install plugins for songs like mp3, mp4, flv etc.

What kind of proxy sever is it? I have seen such error only in my
office where the proxy uses NTLM authentication. Synaptic can not
communicate using NTLM protocol.

You can use ntlmaps (or cntlm) as a bridge between Synaptic and your proxy.


Onkar