I would like to set apt-get to use a proxy on my ubuntu box. I have successfully configured synaptic to use a proxy, so I can install packages, but I would like to be able to use the command line.
My work proxy requires both a username and password, both of which have special characters in them.
In my .bashrc I have
export http_proxy="http://user@company:P@[email protected]:80/"
however, this doesn't work.
I've also tried escaping the special characters but that doesn't seem to work either:
export http_proxy="http://user\@company:P\@\$\[email protected]:80/"
Seemed to be a combination of 2 things. I needed to use escape codes for the special characters and I needed to add entries to /etc/apt/apt.conf. (Supposedly, exporting the _proxy environment variables should make apt-get work, but I did not have that luck.)
/etc/apt/apt.conf:
APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated 1;
Acquire::http::proxy "http://user%40company:P%40%24%[email protected]:80/";
Acquire::ftp::proxy "ftp://user%40company:P%40%24%[email protected]:80/";
Acquire::https::proxy "https://user%40company:P%40%24%[email protected]:80/";
.bashrc:
export http_proxy="http://user%40company:P%40%24%[email protected]:80/";
export ftp_proxy="ftp://user%40company:P%40%24%[email protected]:80/";
export https_proxy="https://user%40company:P%40%24%[email protected]:80/";