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 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1534801 Title: Ubuntu/Lubuntu 16.04 Alpha installer does not cope with proxy To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1534801/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs