<div dir="ltr">On 6 September 2013 15:51, Andrés Muñiz Piniella <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andresmp@gmail.com" target="_blank">andresmp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">I am using kubuntu 12.04 but it should be a cross platform problem I think.<br>
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The problem I had was that the proxy was not letting me get online.<br>
I changed the proxy settings via the network settings GUI and it was<br>
all fine for rekonq web browser but muon (the package manager) did not<br>
update .<br>
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Of course it did not tell me it was the proxy setting (I do not think<br>
it could tell me) it just told me that I could not reach such and such<br>
web pages.<br>
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I finally came up the solution: looking up in askubuntu [1] it seems I<br>
need my username and password on a plain text file the<br>
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/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/<br>
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Is this solution the best? is there a more elegant solution?<br>
Also, it keeps asking me for my username and password to use the web<br>
browser but does not do this for package manager. I much rather have<br>
it ask me for username and password on both aplications. Rather than<br>
having my username and password written in plain text.<br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br> Or is this the normal way things work and I should not be too fussed about it?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I need to use a proxy, but I don't have to authenticate. This is the correct place to store the configuration. Bear in mind that this file is only readable by root, so the credentials aren't at much risk. </div>
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Also, when using apt-get it finds the packages fine now but it is<br>
telling me that some of the files are not authentificated and that I<br>
should not trust them. It is a fresh install and I have not set any<br>
PPA. I was only installing gimp and gwyddion which normally do not<br>
give me any problems.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If you update the list of packages, it will get the keys that are missing and everything will be authenticated again. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Thanks for any pointers!<br>
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[1] <a href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/23666/apt-get-does-not-work-with-proxy" target="_blank">http://askubuntu.com/questions/23666/apt-get-does-not-work-with-proxy</a><br>
<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Neil.</div><div><br></div><div>P.S. Sorry for the delay in replying, I tried sending it yesterday but the gmail app on my phone is playing up... </div>
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