[Nottingham] Running Ubuntu at Nottingham Uni

[Louise Brown]

Hi Martin and Mike,

Thanks very much!  My new computer's ubuntu is installing updates as I write.

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?

Thanks,

Louise

From: Mike Haber [mailto:Mike.Haber at nottingham.ac.uk]
Sent: 22 May 2012 09:02
To: Louise.Brown at nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: RE: Running Ubuntu at Nottingham Uni

Hi Louise,
The automatic proxy.pac file will just work for firefox. You also need a proxy for bash, and for other software.
You can set the bash proxy in ~/.bashrc
EXPORT http_proxy=http://proxy.nottingham.ac.uk:8080

And also apt will need a proxy.  See
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto#Setting_up_apt-get_to_use_a_http-proxy


ta
Mike Haber

From: nottingham-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:nottingham-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Louise Brown
Sent: 21 May 2012 16:21
To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [Nottingham] Running Ubuntu at Nottingham Uni

Hi,

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 http://wwwcache.nottingham.ac.uk/proxy.pac 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 :(

Thanks,

Louise

Dr Louise Brown
Research Fellow

Polymer Composites Group
ITRC Building, Room B02a
University of Nottingham
University Park
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