Thursday, March 14, 2013

Synaptic Package Manager behind Proxy

To configure the Synaptic Package manager behind the proxy, follow the below simple steps
1. Open Synaptic Package manager, by searching it from Ubuntu dash or clicking open it from launcher panel.
2. Click, Settings->Preferences menu.
3. The below screen would appear.

4. Select "Network tab".
5. Select "Manual proxy configuration"
5. Enter the "HTTP proxy:" ip address and "Port", and also "FTP proxy:" ip address and "Port".
6. Enter "localhost" in the "No proxy for:" text box.
7. Click on the "Authentication" button near HTTP proxy port spinner box.
8. Enter your network "username" and "password" for proxy authentication.
9. Thats all, you are through to download and install packages.

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