APTus not able to use proxy?

[andymac]

I have installed 4.5.2 LXQt in an environment where the network segment is firewalled so that the only connections out are via a HTTP proxy server.

I have added proxy definitions to /etc/apt/apt.conf and /etc/environment (with both upper and lower case environment variable names) which work for Firefox and the apt CLI tools (sudo apt-get update/upgrade works) however the "first run of Sparky" tool and APTus both complain that there is no network connection.

If these tools can use a HTTP proxy as apt can, where and how do I tell them the proxy connection details?

Thanks,
Andy.

[pavroo]

The First Run uses Sparky APTus Upgrade tool which does not provide any special settings. It uses the default apt configuration.
Anyway, edit two files:
/usr/bin/sparky-aptus-upgrade
/usr/lib/sparky-aptus-upgrade/upgrade-now
and comment out the lines:

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# checking connection
PINGTEST=$(ping -c 1 debian.org | grep [0-9])

if [ "$PINGTEST" = "" ]; then
    $DIALOG $TITLE"$TITLETEXT" $MSGBOX $TEXT"$LOCAL3"
    exit 1
fi

[andymac]

Thanks.  I also had to comment the same lines in /usr/bin/sparky-firstrun-exe to get that to work.