I had this problem today with 10.04. The root cause is that environment variables such as http_proxy are not preserved when you use sudo. As a workaround you can get a root shell with:
sudo bash Then set http_proxy to what it should be: export http_proxy=http://user:p...@stupidproxy.com:8080 Then you can do apt-get install or dpkg --configure -a if you had to manually kill the previous install HTH -- The installer should use system proxy settings. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/56880 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
