On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 6:17 PM, vikram ranade <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes. Actually I am using college LAN. And to browse I had to enter the >> >> proxy address in Firefox settings. >> I think this is the reason why I am not able to connect to repositories. >> Will u please let me know what to do now..? >> > You need to do the following - > System -->Administration --> Synaptic Package Manager > > It will ask you for the password and then Synaptic will load. > > Go the the menu to Settings --> Preferences -> Network > > Click on manual Proxy configuration and enter the HTTP proxy details > (for authentication settings,press the button on the right of the menu) > > click on Apply and then on Ok. > > click on Reload. > It should work now.Hope this helps. > > PS -sometimes (rarely but still....) it needs a restart of the system before > it will read the new > network settings (not sure why). > > You could also enter global proxy settings in Gnome so that you do-not have > to do this for > every app that needs Internet access. > > System-->Preferences-->Network- Proxy > Done. Problem solved..! So if I am using any proxy to connect to web then I have to manually update it in system settings too. (beside the browser) Got it. Thanks to all. By the way what was that 8.8.8.8 ? > > > -- > Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: > http://lug-iitd.org/Footer >
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