Gdebi-gtk cannot use proxy with authentication

Thanks for your bugreport.

I suspect this is actually a bug in the gksu application that is responsible for setting the proxy environment. Could you please run: "gksu xterm" and then "echo $http_proxy" and check if that information looks correct? If not, could you please attach what it looks like (edit out the sensitive information first of course :)

Thanks,
 Michael

Yes the information did not look correct. The http_proxy variable shows only "http://proxyname:port/" instead of "http://username:passwd@proxyname:port/".

This is the case when I press Alt+F2 and launch gksudo xterm.
In case if I use gnome-terminal and then launch gksu xterm , the output is correct, i.e. "http://username:passwd@proxyname:port/".

Note that I haven't manually set up the environment variables. I have only set up the variable in gconf by System-->Preferences-->Network Proxy.

I am having the same problem here. It seems that Synaptic/UpdateManager resolves in this order: http_proxy(env) -> .synaptic/conf -> gconf
It seems that gksu sets the incorrect http_proxy env variable and UpdateManager ends up using this. Even though gconf has the right configuration.

Patch included. This patch must be used instead of gksu-2.0.0/debian/patches/14_set_http_proxy_env.patch. This fixes the proxy authentication problem for me. It also reworks some error handling.

Patch included. This patch must be used instead of gksu-2.0.0/debian/patches/14_set_http_proxy_env.patch. This fixes the proxy authentication problem for me. It also reworks some error handling.

can anyone tell me how to allow sudo to install packages

adding gdebi because the duplicate was about gdebi.

The bug was originally reported on gdebi package itself, but was later
modifies to reflect correct culprit. IMO, We could keep adding to list
'cause almost any application requiring authenticated proxy (with
administrative priv.) won't work. For e.g. Synaptic cannot install
corefonts as it can not download packages from sourceforge and so on.

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Lionel Dricot <email address hidden> wrote:
> adding gdebi because the duplicate was about gdebi.
>
> ** Also affects: gdebi (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> --
> Gdebi-gtk cannot use proxy with authentication
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/192641
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> of the bug.
>

the issue is not a gdebi bug

Hi seb128, I think that this bug should be considered a medium-priority bug because it affects all the enterprise-desktop users (like me and my colleagues).
Thanks a lot for your work.

Angelo

This also affects me, and I agree, this will also affect many enterprise or network systems which rely on a squid proxy to regulate external net access.

Authentication is provided via Proxy Manager in Gnome, yet apt-get fails to take this into account and fails.

Ditto, I'm running karmic and just set up Automatic proxy configuration in "Network Proxy Preferences". I also choose to apply these settings "System-Wide". This apparantly does not include Gdebi :)

As a workaround (for those who get stuck by this bug), instead of double-clicking on a .deb file to launch gdebi-gtk, start a gnome-terminal, then type
gksu gdebi-gtk <file-name>.deb

kenden.. your alternative solution works for now..
Thank you

Bug still exists in 10.04