Same behaviour here. I am behind a firewall that mandates proxy usage. So i cannot use the web without a proxy, and neither can APT.
When I activate my network connection this little Synaptic helper pops up in my deskbar saying there are updates available, but cannot download them (nor can it download the changelog information that the application-updater wants to display). I wonder where it gets the info there are updates available, when it can't pass the proxy ... but maybe this helps track the problem. it seems only apps started with admin privileges have this problem. Specifying http_proxy and ftp_proxy in the console and then using 'apt-get update; apt-get upgrade' works fine. (Although I would really like this config to be read from the globale configuration too ... also for Firefox. Why is there not a _single_ place to configure your proxy, or set an automatic proxy? That would really be a plus.) Jens -- No good proxy conf, for synaptic... https://launchpad.net/bugs/56655 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
