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If you are working in the internet with ubuntu, you may need some software to be installed before it is being used actually.

If you install ubuntu with a live CD, you will not have VLC Media player, etc.

Proxy setup needed to install/update software in ubuntu

1. proxy support for Synaptic package manager

Go to Settings-> preferences –> Network Tab, click manual proxy configuration and then set the proxy ip and port

2. proxy support for apt-get

Open the file /root/.bashrc and type the following line

export http_proxy=http://username:password@host:port/

If your proxy server does not have username/password combination then include the following line

export http_proxy=http://host:port/

for example,

export http_proxy=http://192.168.0.10:808/

(NB: .bashrc file is available for all the users of ubuntu, for example if the Linux user login name is “pradeepkumar” then there will be a .bashrc file at /home/pradeepkumar/, but setting the http_proxy in those files will be of no use, because ubuntu allows installation/upgrading of software only for super users ie root, so /root/.bashrc alone will be set with the http_proxy variable)

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1575

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  1. DhamoJanuary 5, 2011 at 6:37 PM

    Wonderful help.
    Recently migrated to Linux Ubuntu.
    Planning to migrate all of my personal Laptops to Ubuntu.

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  2. Arulalan.TJune 15, 2011 at 3:18 AM

    Thanks a lot. This /root/.bashrc file helped me a lot. Searched this for a long time.
    :-)

    Thanks.

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