Public bug reported:

Hi,

today I've installed a Lubuntu 16.04 Alpha from a desktop installation
cd image and ran into a problem.


- The boot/installation process never asked whether there's a web proxy to be 
used (and it is, the network where I installed the machine is not directly 
connected to the internet, just through a web proxy


- during the installation process the machine claimed several times to have no 
network although it had.


-  Further package installation was, of course, impossible until I've entered 
the proxy settings into /etc/apt/apt.conf . (It then worked). 


- Another related problem: When installing the german version, it does  not 
install all locale packages (due to limited space on the cd image). Instead it 
launches an info box offering to start a special installation tool to download 
and install the missing language-specific packages. This tool continuosly 
denied to work and claimed, it could not read the package repository, although 
the proxy was entered into /etc/apt/apt.conf and was was working for regular 
apt-get install. That tool ignored those proxy settings.  (I guess it would 
require some environment variable pointing to the proxy, but since the tool is 
automatically started by the desktop, it's not trivial to pass that to the 
tool.)


-> Result: I was not able to finish installation on a regular user's level. Of 
course, If you know Ubuntu pretty well, one can install the missing packages 
manually, but that's not the audience that Installer is intended for. Most 
users will not be able to workaround.

** Affects: ubuntu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  Ubuntu/Lubuntu 16.04 Alpha installer does not cope with proxy

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