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unable to install softwares from software center

Asked by sai kiran

i use a proxy connection to access internet and made appropriate settings in network proxy and in synaptic package manager
also the authentication settings,i am able to download packages from synaptic but i am not able to download any software from software center .it gives me a message of "407 proxy authentication required"
how can this be solved

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

You may need to set the proxies with system wide values:

export ftp_proxy=http://username:password@192.168.1.1:80/
export http_proxy=http://username:password@192.168.1.1:80/
sudo apt-get update

change http://username:password@192.168.1.1:80/ for your proxy. Software centre is just a GUI for apt-get (seems the tailing '/' is needed)

If you add this to the end of ~/.bashrc it will stick

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