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.
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:
# checking connection
PINGTEST=$(ping -c 1 debian.org | grep [0-9])
if [ "$PINGTEST" = "" ]; then
$DIALOG $TITLE"$TITLETEXT" $MSGBOX $TEXT"$LOCAL3"
exit 1
fi
Thanks. I also had to comment the same lines in /usr/bin/sparky-firstrun-exe to get that to work.