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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi Martin and Mike,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks very much! My new computer’s ubuntu is installing updates as I write. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>One more question – it also tells me that a new release 12.04 LTS is available. Is it preferable to upgrade? If I hit the upgrade button will it just sort itself out? Will this be ok on my dual boot machine? If the upgrade seems worth doing then I guess it’s maybe worth going for it before I start transferring files onto the new computer. Also I suppose I may as well get used to the new version as the 11.10 currently installed. Any thoughts/advice?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Louise<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Mike Haber [mailto:Mike.Haber@nottingham.ac.uk] <br><b>Sent:</b> 22 May 2012 09:02<br><b>To:</b> Louise.Brown@nottingham.ac.uk<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: Running Ubuntu at Nottingham Uni<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi Louise,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>The automatic proxy.pac file will just work for firefox. You also need a proxy for bash, and for other software.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>You can set the bash proxy in ~/.bashrc<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>EXPORT http_proxy=http://proxy.nottingham.ac.uk:8080<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>And also apt will need a proxy. See<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto#Setting_up_apt-get_to_use_a_http-proxy">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto#Setting_up_apt-get_to_use_a_http-proxy</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>ta<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Mike Haber<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> nottingham-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:nottingham-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Louise Brown<br><b>Sent:</b> 21 May 2012 16:21<br><b>To:</b> nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk<br><b>Subject:</b> [Nottingham] Running Ubuntu at Nottingham Uni<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>I’m a fairly intermittent linux user so apologies if my question has an obvious answer! I’ve just had a new dual-boot computer with Ubuntu 11.10 installed. I’m unable to download any software or updates. At first I couldn’t get any websites to load in Firefox but have now set it to auto-detect proxy settings and that’s now working fine. Is the download problem also likely to be a proxy settings issue? I did a search and found a (quite old) blog which said to set the proxy to automatic with the URL set to <a href="http://wwwcache.nottingham.ac.uk/proxy.pac">http://wwwcache.nottingham.ac.uk/proxy.pac</a> but that doesn’t seem to make a difference. Any help with this would be much appreciated – IT support logged my call nearly a week ago and I’ve heard nothing from them since <span style='font-family:Wingdings'>L</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Louise<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Dr Louise Brown<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Research Fellow<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>Polymer Composites Group<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>ITRC Building, Room B02a<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>University of Nottingham<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>University Park<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>NG7 2RD<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>T - +44 (0)115 9514037<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"'>E – <a href="Louise.Brown@nottingham.ac.uk"><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Louise.Brown@nottingham.ac.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:36.0pt'>This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. 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