humble_coffee, have you tried to use wget as normal user? I think the problem is related to sudo. To check it, do the following:
1) Remove, or comment out, your settings of the proxy in wgetrc (either in /etc/wgetrc as in ~/.wgetrc) 2) Set proxy in System->Preferences->Network Proxy and set it to be system-wide 3) sudo su This will make you enter a root. All the commands after this will run as root, so you don't to start them with SUDO 2) echo $http_proxy If your proxy is correctly shown then you should be able to execute 3), 4) or 5) If not, before going to 3) do: export http_proxy="http://your.proxy.address:port/"; 3) wget <URL of the file to download> or 4) apt-get update or 5) apt-get install <some package> If you can run 3) to 5) as described, but cannot run as: sudo wget <URL of the file to download> sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install <some package> then the problem is with SUDO that is not reading $http_proxy from environment. That bug is already reported in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/+bug/556293 but it is with very low activity :-( -- Wget does not work with proxy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/554068 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
