Pengwin: Setting up a proxy for apt (configuring proxy.conf)

[ket000]

After WLinux is installed it runs initial setup program. However when we are behind proxy, it fails to connect to the apt repository and also fails to get updated content.

Is there anyway for setup program to ask for proxy server name and port and use it.

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[sirredbeard]

You would set up a proxy manually in apt the same way you would on bare metal, see:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto#Setting_up_apt-get_to_use_a_http-proxy

[ket000]

It seems that apt does not honor http proxy variables. It needs to be setup
in proxy.conf. Please see ths link:
https://www.serverlab.ca/tutorials/linux/administration-linux/how-to-set-the-proxy-for-apt-for-ubuntu-18-04/

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On Oct 1, 2018, at 2:50 PM, Hayden [e-mail] wrote:

You would set up a proxy manually in apt the same way you would on bare
metal, see:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto#Setting_up_apt-get_to_use_a_http-proxy

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[ket000]

apt is no longer supporting http_proxy variables. Please see below for setting up proxy.conf file.

https://www.serverlab.ca/tutorials/linux/administration-linux/how-to-set-the-proxy-for-apt-for-ubuntu-18-04/

After following this it resolved my issue.

[aborruso]

@ket000 I have solved (for Ubuntu wsl distro) creating /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/proxy.conf and writing inside it something like

Acquire::http::Proxy "http://proxy.myserver.com:8080";

[sirredbeard]

Gotcha, @ket000, sorry for confusion.

Thank you @aborruso.

You could open /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/proxy.conf in nano (my favorite) or something like $ sudo echo 'Acquire::http::Proxy "http://proxy.myserver.com:8080";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/proxy.conf.