adept doesn't work behind a proxy server

Have you configured APT to use the proxy?

For instance in /etc/apt/apt.conf you should have a line similar to:

Acquire::http::Proxy "http://www-cache.strath.ac.uk:8080/";

Yes, I know that, but I think that for a newbie, adept should use kde proxy server settings or, like synaptic, have a dialog that lets one do that.

Problem still present in Kubuntu 7.04beta
This is really annoying when trying to install Kubuntu at work.
This also may explain why some people are reporting Kubuntu 7.04 instalation problem (installer hangs at 82% - you have to disconnect the network)

Kubuntu has just been released and this bug is still present.
I'd like to add that also "apt-get" and aptitude commands from the console should work and the file /etc/wgetrc should be updated with the current proxy

Still doesn't work in Kubuntu hardy 3. Hallo? Anyone out there who can fix this?

I had same problem on Kubuntu 7.10, the only way I could get around it was:

$> export http_proxy="http://proxyserver.com:8181"
$> sudo adept_manager

It then worked fine, took me about 35 mins of messing about with config settings to find that out!

Same in Hardy, but come on, it takes so long to create a "http proxy" field in Adept Manager, as it is shown in Synaptic??

Daedalus: This proxy feature is much more complicated than you seem to think it is. If you doubt me, take a peek at the code. There's a lot going on there.

Once again, this is not a forum, this is a bug tracker. Let's please keep opinion pieces in the forums so that we can use bug trackers for tracking bugs.

Hi, I can confirm the problem also happens in the Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 with update-manager. The solution is also the one listed at the comment above:

$> export http_proxy="http://username:<email address hidden>:80"
$> sudo update-manager

I would like to suggest a possible solution.
Maybe, you can put a wrapper shell in order to start update-manager and that shell could extract the parameter from /root/.synaptic/synaptic.conf some variables and set the http_proxy only for the update-manager (or adept-manager) session.

Also, this bug seems duplicated with a lot of others. See:
bug #173050
bug #162996
bug #115388
bug #109700
bug #21536

Hope this helps.

Sorry, I forgot to say that everything works with update-manager when I have Synaptic proxy config settings.
The only thing that does not work is the "dist-upgrade" like situation. I mean, I have all my packages uptaded using update-manager but no dist-upgrade (ever).
In order to accomplish dist-upgrade I have to manually set the http_proxy and call sudo update-manager. That is why I suggested a wrapper shell over the update-manager (and adept-manager).
Best regards.

I confirm this bug in Hardy LTS 8.04.1 with latest updates on 2009-01-13.

This is a bug and not a feature as the "Proxy" configuration page resides in the "Internet & Network" category. Nothing warns me that the modification will be spread on a so narrow range of applications.

I have to separately configure Firefox, apt-get/adept and all the other ones. A common way to configure browsers is to provide a javascript script in a file with extension .pac (meaning Proxy Auto Configuration) and providing a single function called "FindProxyForURL(url, host)" to determine whether direct access or a proxy should be used.

Why doesn't Kubuntu/Ubuntu provide such a script refering to the KDE Proxy configuration. This script would be pre-configured into Firefox, adept, ... and for applications which do not support PAC, why not implement this support as a new feature ? What a valuable contribution of Kubuntu/Ubuntu to the original mainstream projects it depends on !

This would, by the way, solve another annoyance : proxy exceptions are a pain to handle when a new "lan" host has to be manually added to firefox, kde, eclipse, ...

Finally, to be able to say Ubuntu is easier to use than OS x, squash Ubuntu's deficiencies and add X's advantages ! Here X is Microsoft Windows and the advantage is the "single point for proxy configuration".

Hi Chucky,
Ubuntu with Gnome as desktop environment have an option in the proxy configuration dialog to apply the settings globally (which is done setting some environment variables). Such a thing should be simply done also inside KDE.

Problem still seen here in 8.10 Intrepid Ibex running KDE4.1.

The workaround using environment variable "http_proxy" on the command line works fine, but can't be always set globally using an export in the .profile or similar way. Because some applications don't like those environment variables. E.g. try to use the VMWare console when you have installed VMWare Server. It is a no go. This may also be a mistake by VMWare but I'm sure there are some other apps that would have problems with that too.

In addition I found out that adept is not the only one that suffers in this case. There are several scripts that have problems too. One example is the /etc/cron.daily/apt script. There I had to add the proxy by hardcoding it into the script although this particular script seems to use gconftool to get proxy data which I just don't use because I installed Kubuntu because I didn't want Gnome. Is this really the intended way to do that when one has installed Kubuntu??? This is horrible! Isn't there a similar way to get those information from the KDE4 system settings where you can set the proxy?

This is a really funny behavior. Strange somewhat and although I managed to get the apt updater scripts working correctly in KDE4 so that it shows the "Software Update available"-Icon when I try to open it and actually do the update it fails because adept doesn't get the proxy information.

Adept is a package exclusively for KDE (at least this is stated in the package description) and so it should really be capable of using the proxy settings from KDE itself.

These are the little things that keep people using Gnome. It is always the little things! So the earlier you get this done the better. And I really think that providing another proxy configuration inside adept wouldn't be a good choice. It should definitely use the settings from KDE. As a user you would want to provide the proxy once and manage it in one place.

Sorry for the rant, it's just annoying.

Ancoron

Gianfranco,
First, environment variables do not support proxy exceptions. Those are hosts which must not be reached through the proxy but through direct connection.
Second, I can't work using environment variables as this would require to logout/login which is not allowed in my case. In fact, I use GNU/Linux as it avoids those painfull reboots and logout/login which are a not negligible part of other OSes users' lives.

Ancoron,
I agree with you.

Maybe the solution is a fake-proxy-relay ? It would be installed by default under [K]ubuntu and which would be the single point of configuration where to set the real proxy configuration. Then any package would be preconfigured to use it as its proxy, without having to keep the settings up to date across the applications.

Hi Chucky,

that sounds somewhat like a wrapper around a wrapper in my ears.

Well I just fooled around a bit and found out, that the proxy settings are stored in ~/.kde/share/config/kioslaverc...

ancoron@bitch:~$ cat .kde/share/config/kioslaverc
PersistentProxyConnection=false

[$Version]
update_info=kioslave.upd:kde2.2/r1,kioslave.upd:kde2.2/r2,kioslave.upd:kde2.2/r3

[Proxy Settings]
AuthMode=0
NoProxyFor=blizzard.com,deviantart.com
Proxy Config Script=http://proxy.test.net:8080/test.pac

# the following is the type of the configuration where
# 0 = direct connection (no proxy)
# 1 = manual configuration
# 2 = configuration script
# 3 = automatic proxy configuration
ProxyType=1

# the following is "true" if the proxy is only used for the sites in "NoProxyFor"
ReversedException=false

# the following variables store the proxy settings for manual configuration
ftpProxy=http://proxy.test.net:8080
httpProxy=http://proxy.test.net:8080
httpsProxy=http://proxy.test.net:8080

I then googled again and found out that there is a command line tool called "kreadconfig". So I tried:

ancoron@bitch:~$ kreadconfig --file kioslaverc --group Proxy\ Settings --key httpProxy
http://proxy.test.net:8080
ancoron@bitch:~$ kreadconfig --file kioslaverc --group Proxy\ Settings --key ProxyType
1
ancoron@bitch:~$

Well, that's all we need, don't we?

If that command gets used in the scripts that invoke apt and the like the problem could be solved (at least I think that).

In addition there is the kioslave subsystem which should automatically apply the proxy settings. That would be another option for adept to use for access to the repos (but that would change implementation and not just configuration).

Ancoron

Hello
   Last night I installed kubuntu 8.10(KDE 4.1) and I then went on to correct IP setting (Manually for LAN). I searched on desktop but i couldn't resolve my issue. So plz lend me helping hand.

Thanks alot!!!!!!!!!!

Unfortunately, Adept has been unmaintained by its original authors for several years, and nobody has stepped up to continue its development. (Though the Muon Suite is arguably its spiritual successor) As such, Adept has been removed from releases of Kubuntu from 12.10 onwards, and no additional improvements will be made to the software.

We thank you for reporting this bug all the same, and apologize for taking so long to respond to it.