apt want's to use proxy even when i disable it

**outlaws42** · December 18th, 2008

I am running Ubuntu 8.10 on my Dell 1420 laptop. when i connect to the internet at home I use a proxy. This part works fine when i do

Code:

sudo apt-get update

. But when i go any where else and connect directly to the internet apt still wants to use my proxy. I have even tried to delete my apt.conf file all together and it still tries to connect through my proxy. my apt.conf when i disable the proxy is as follows

Code:

#ACQUIRE
 {
  http
 {
    Proxy "http://192.168.0.6:8000/";
  };
 };

Just a note that everything else connects fine it's only apt that tries to use my proxy no matter what my settings.

**bigbrovar** · December 18th, 2008

well am not sure about your method of enabling proxy for apt. we use proxy here to and what i do is add my proxy settings to

Code:

.bashrc

in my home directory and

Code:

bash.bashrc

in /etc i add the following to the bottom of both file so there look like this

Code:

    . /etc/bash_completion
fi

# Networkproxy
export http_proxy=http://proxy.aust-abuja.org:3128/

this works fine with every command i run that needs internet connecting would use my proxy. e.g wget,youtude-dl,apt-get, everything would be directed to use my proxy. to connect to the internet. and when am in a another network that dont need proxy to connect to the internet. all i do is add a comment to the proxy settings so that it becomes

Code:

    . /etc/bash_completion
fi

# Networkproxy
#export http_proxy=http://proxy.aust-abuja.org:3128/

i do this to both /etc/bash.bashrc and $HOME/.bashrc

so just

Code:

sudo gedit /etc/bash.bashrc

and in your case it add

Code:

export http_proxy=http://192.168.0.6:8000/

to the end of the file.

then do the same for

.bashrc in your home dir

Code:

nano $HOME/.bashrc

AND ADD

Code:

export http_proxy=http://192.168.0.6:8000/

to the end of the file.

so i would advise you undo the the proxy settings you have for apt.conf..

edit .. funny before posting this i just decided to check my /etc/apt/apt.conf file and i saw that my proxy settings had been automatically updated to it ..

cquire::http:

roxy "http://proxy.aust-abuja.org:3128/";
Acquire::ftp:

roxy "ftp://proxy.aust-abuja.org:3128/";
Acquire::https:

roxy "https://proxy.aust-abuja.org:3128/";

am sure it was because i set synaptic to download thru my proxy.

you can go to synaptic > settings > preference > network and tell it to download directly from the internet. let me know if it works.

**outlaws42** · December 19th, 2008

I want to keep apt from using the proxy (unless i specify). is there a place that tells apt what a direct connection is? because I don't have my settings set to use a proxy right now that i can see, but apt wants to connect through it. I don't know where it's getting the settings. I looked in .bashrc and /etc/wgetrc /etc/bash.bashrc none of them have proxy settings in them. I even deleted my /etc/apt/apt.conf and still tries to connect through the proxy.