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I have installed 4 ubuntu servers on a virtual machine. same installation procedure where i set the proxy, domain, ip during the installation. it appears that 2 of the machine have no issues at all. both ping and apt-get. but for some unknown reason the other 2 can ping anything including security.ubuntu.com and us.archive.ubuntu.com but can't do sudo apt-get update .

so all of them have the file /etc/apt/apt.conf

Acquire::http::Proxy "10.10.19.21";

What i've noticed here is that there is no port number for any of them.Even with that 2 servers still can update via apt-get

for now there is no http_proxy set in either /etc/environment.

Can anyone help you? thank you.

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Try commenting Acquire::http::Proxy "10.10.19.21"; and set http_proxy in bashrc

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  • Hello Thanks for the response. you mean at the end of .bashrc ? But to do any apt-get one needs to be sudo so won't it be best if it's something like /etc/profile or /etc/environment ? Nov 28, 2012 at 17:55
  • AFAIK when you use sudo to gain root access, this is actually your user which gives a temporary privilege to use system commands and all of your environmental variable are valid there Nov 30, 2012 at 12:30

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