I have installed Docker on Windows 10, and ran a new ubuntu container.
Now on the container, I run ‘apt-get update’ and it says: Could not connect to archive.ubuntu.com:80 (91.189.88.161).
Understandable, I am behind a proxy which I need to authenticate against.
According to this article: https://www.serverlab.ca/tutorials/linux/administration-linux/how-to-set-the-proxy-for-apt-for-ubuntu-18-04/
I need to update the proxy.conf file with my proxy settings.
Great, but vi isn’t installed so I can edit the config file, and I cant install vi without using apt-get which needs me to edit the proxy.conf using vi…???
Now what?
Any ideas?
gforghetti
February 1, 2019, 2:22pm
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Here’s an example. Change the http://user:password@proxy.server:port/ below to match what your proxy needs.
🐳 gforghetti@172.28.128.3:[~] $ sudo touch /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/proxy.conf
🐳 gforghetti@172.28.128.3:[~] $ echo 'Acquire::https::Proxy "http://user:password@proxy.server:port/";'| sudo tee -a /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/proxy.conf
Acquire::https::Proxy "http://user:password@proxy.server:port/";
🐳 gforghetti@172.28.128.3:[~] $ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/proxy.conf
Acquire::https::Proxy "http://user:password@proxy.server:port/";
🐳 gforghetti@172.28.128.3:[~] $
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Thank you, worked perfectly!
meyay
February 1, 2019, 10:27pm
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What about the good old http_proxy enviornment variable? When set, apt-get uses it
export http_proxy=proxy.mycompany.com:80
I only use Acquire::https::Proxy when a repository cache like apt-cacher-ng is available in the environment. This allows to use a different proxy for general web downloads and a specific configuration for the repository cache.
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Hi
I originally did try and use the environment variable:
export http_proxy=http://username:password@proxy.host.co.za:8080
However, it seemed to take the proxy host and port, however, ignored the authentication details (username & password). I kept getting 407 Authentication Required responses.
According to the link in my original post, it says: Aptitude will not use the HTTP Proxy environment variables. Instead, it has its own configuration file where you can set your proxy.
Perhaps this has something to do with it not using the authentication details.
This is why I was looking at how to update the proxy.conf file.
Although I am now getting further than before, it appears that some packages during download still say 407 Proxy Authentication Required.
root@8d9e473f6645:/# apt-get install vim
Why would some seem fine and other complain about proxy authentication?
(note in the above pasted trace I have removed the first ‘h’ from ‘http’ so it wouldnt be seen as a link and let me post this)
Strange, if I run apt-get install vim from directory “/etc/apt” then there are no proxy authentication issues?
meyay
February 4, 2019, 11:23am
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Actualy, I never thried it with a proxy that requires auth.
We use the http_proxy settings as --build-arg while building our containers. Without it apt-get can’t install a single package during the build.
