Ubuntu – unable to enter proxy authentication details in synaptic Ubuntu 13.04

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Hi I recently installed Ubuntu 13.04, I work behind a proxy and it has all sorts of complications, authentication, special character in the password. So I used to enter the proxy settings in the synaptic and use.
But in Ubuntu 13.04 – 64 bit, I'm unable to enter the authentication details. I'm able to open up the window but can't enter the details.

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I have the same problem, also in 13.04 - 64 bit. In Ubuntu 12.10 - 64 bits, on the same machine, it worked.

Anyway, until the problem is solved, you can manually edit its conf file to change proxy parameters for Synaptic.

The file is /root/.synaptic/synaptic.conf and you can specify the user and password on the httpProxyUser and httpProxyPass lines

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Go to /etc/apt. Create the file apt.conf if you don't have it there. Write the following lines there.

Acquire::http::proxy "http://username:password@proxyserver:port/";
Acquire::https::proxy "https://username:password@proxyserver:port/";
Acquire::socks::proxy "socks://username:password@proxyserver:port/";

Save it. You are done.

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