On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Nick Lanham <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Are you SURE the http_proxy is set when running the pacman command? > > Try doing something like (also add in the https proxy in case): > > user@host$ http_proxy='http://proxy.name_of_uni.edu.my:8080' ftp_proxy='...' https_proxy='...' pacman .... > > I have a one line script that just has (i don't use ftp): > > #!/bin/bash > http_proxy='http://proxy:8080' https_proxy='https://proxy:8080' $* > > save as pprox and then run: > > user@host$ pprox pacman .... > > and it works great. > > good luck! > Yes I'm sure, since I can exported it, and I can see it when running env, and wget works. Nothing in your script would change the env pacman is seeing on my machine. Thanks, however, it occured to me that the environment might have been changed by sudo, so once I change user it works. Conclusion - PEBKAC, as you expected (though the exact problem was misdiagnosed). Sorry all for the noise. Forgot that I had set sudo on my previous laptop install to keep the environment variables, now to set that up for this desktop as well.
