How to make apt-get work with proxy?

Asked Apr 16 '13 at 16:05

Active Apr 16 '13 at 17:05

Viewed 33 times

I am using Ubuntu 12.04. When I run the command:

sudo apt-get update

I get the error message as:

403 forbidden access

I have tried the solution I found here in one of the questions, editing /etc/apt/apt.conf:

Acquire::http::proxy "http://mywindomain\username:password@proxy:8080/";

but with no luck.

How do I solve this?

edited Apr 16 '13 at 17:05

Aditya

asked Apr 16 '13 at 16:05

i saw that, it does not answer my problem :( – Apr 16 '13 at 16:31
@ALJIMohamed I think that the correct syntax for proxy specification is Acquire::http::proxy "http://<username>:<password>@<proxy>:<port>/";. Please see http://askubuntu.com/a/89695/82650 for details. – Masroor Apr 16 '13 at 16:54
Can you show us more of that error message? From what you posted it is impossible to see if a mirror is talking or the proxy. – guntbert Apr 16 '13 at 19:44

0 Answers0