apt with and without proxy

[Joe of loath]

Hi,

I have ubuntu on a portable hard drive, and use it at school (with a proxy) and at home (without). At school the updates and repositories worked first time, but when I got home it doesn't work at all, and keeps telling me 'it can't resolve "proxy" (which is the name of the proxy)'. I can't seem find any configuration files to edit (and possibly create a script to switch between the two.)

can anyone help?
thanks,
Joe

[dcstar]

Hi,

I have ubuntu on a portable hard drive, and use it at school (with a proxy) and at home (without). At school the updates and repositories worked first time, but when I got home it doesn't work at all, and keeps telling me 'it can't resolve "proxy" (which is the name of the proxy)'. I can't seem find any configuration files to edit (and possibly create a script to switch between the two.)

can anyone help?
thanks,
Joe

System-Administration-Synaptic-Preferences-Network.

[Aearenda]

Or look in /etc/apt/apt.conf if it exists.

[Joe of loath]

ok, there are no proxy settings in synaptic (ie the boxes are greyed out), but it still asks for one. apt.conf doesn't extist, or at least didn't last time I checked. I'll reboot and see later.

[Aearenda]

Also have a look at /etc/apt/sources.list - it is possible to hard code the proxy name in there too. And, check system->preferences->Network Proxy for a system-wide setting.