ubuntu on WSL inside corporate firewall

Question

New to ubuntu, new to WSL, I'm not even able to get ping to work. I've just installed ubuntu and it seems to be running fine. I've set proxy using

export http_proxy=http://mycompany.net:8080

Apt-get-upgrade seemed to work but with "0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded." Ping just locks up.

Also, as recommended, tried

sudo apt-get --print-uris install PROGRAM

which resulted in 'E: Unable to locate package PROGRAM'

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 05 '18 at 17:36

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Ping will not work without a route direct to the internet. That you have to indicates that you do not have such a route, but rather have to go trough a proxy. This is common in corporate environments.

As you get no error messages when you run apt update, this indicates that everything is fine.

answered Apr 05 '18 at 17:36

vidarlo

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I had http_proxy set but not https_proxy – Douglas Apr 05 '18 at 17:43
The edit of the question kind of invalidates my answer. As it is now more or less a duplicate, I will not update the answer. – vidarlo Apr 06 '18 at 08:20

ubuntu on WSL inside corporate firewall

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