Proxy authentication error in ubuntu

Question

I typed the command

sudo gedit /etc/bash.bashrc

And typed the export statement as

export http_proxy="username: password@proxyhost:port"

But after saving it gave a warning message as

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When I try apt-get update it still shows proxy authentication error

The warning is possibly related to this Why should users never use normal sudo to start graphical applications? - rather than anything to do with the proxy setting — steeldriver, Aug 10 '18 at 12:45

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 10 '18 at 10:52

You can try installing cntlm to automatically handle your proxy settings:

supo apt install cntlm
sudo nano /etc/cntlm.conf

From here edit the following fields to give your credentials:

Username username
Domain proxydomain
Paswword pwd 

[...]

Proxy proxyaddress:3128
Noproxy localhost, 127.0.0.*, 10.*, 192.168.*
Listen proxyport

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