El 07/09/2013 21:11, "Neil Greenwood" <neil.greenwood....@gmail.com> escribió: > > On 6 September 2013 15:51, Andrés Muñiz Piniella <andre...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I am using kubuntu 12.04 but it should be a cross platform problem I think. >> >> The problem I had was that the proxy was not letting me get online. >> I changed the proxy settings via the network settings GUI and it was >> all fine for rekonq web browser but muon (the package manager) did not >> update . >> >> Of course it did not tell me it was the proxy setting (I do not think >> it could tell me) it just told me that I could not reach such and such >> web pages. >> >> I finally came up the solution: looking up in askubuntu [1] it seems I >> need my username and password on a plain text file the >> >> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ >> >> Is this solution the best? is there a more elegant solution? >> Also, it keeps asking me for my username and password to use the web >> browser but does not do this for package manager. I much rather have >> it ask me for username and password on both aplications. Rather than >> having my username and password written in plain text. >> >> >> Or is this the normal way things work and I should not be too fussed about it? > > > 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. > >> I was pretty sure i was able to read it with nano without root. But I will check. Thanks for the piece of mind.
>> >> Also, when using apt-get it finds the packages fine now but it is >> telling me that some of the files are not authentificated and that I >> should not trust them. It is a fresh install and I have not set any >> PPA. I was only installing gimp and gwyddion which normally do not >> give me any problems. >> > > If you update the list of packages, it will get the keys that are missing and everything will be authenticated again. >> I thought i had done apt-get upgrade and update. I will check. >> >> Thanks for any pointers! >> >> [1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/23666/apt-get-does-not-work-with-proxy >> > > > Neil. > > P.S. Sorry for the delay in replying, I tried sending it yesterday but the gmail app on my phone is playing up... > It was work related so there was no rush thankyou! >
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