proxy disconfiguration after using privoxy

Question

Used privoxy for some time, and uninstalled it afterwards. Now software installation from the terminal is using the privoxy data, with messages like:

Failed to fetch http://... Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:8118 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111: Connection refused)

Any idea on how to restore the previous configuration?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 22 '14 at 21:20

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The proxy settings are stored in the http_proxy environment variable.

Check your startup configuration files like ~/.bashrc, /etc/bash.bashrc, /etc/profile, /etc/environment, etc. and look for a line like this, remove it, then log out and log back in again:

export http_proxy="http://host:port"

For a temporary solution, you can use this command from a terminal:

unset http_proxy

answered Dec 22 '14 at 21:20

kraxor

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Already did the editing, and had deleted http_proxy and https_proxy from /etc/environment, but stil getting the same error message. 'unset' has worked, but I understand it isn't a final solution. – nightcod3r Dec 22 '14 at 21:44
Did you try logging out? Maybe a reboot would help? – kraxor Dec 22 '14 at 21:59
yep, rebooting didn't help. – nightcod3r Dec 22 '14 at 22:45
see http://askubuntu.com/questions/257290/configure-proxy-for-apt – Panther Dec 23 '14 at 02:55

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