On Jun 5, 2010, at 5:00 AM, Maurice McCarthy <manselton@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Jorge
>
> With a default installation transferring a cd or dvd from one amd64
> machine to another will look after itself. The software manager will
> find it and know what to do with it. An even more cunning plan might
> be to set up your own ubuntu mirror inside the school. Then instead of
> installing on each pc from aptoncd you can use aptoncd to update the
> mirror which then feeds the rest. Might not be politically correct
> though. Have a look at apt-mirror, debmirror and partial-mirror. I've
> never actually done this myself.
>
> Regards
> Maurice
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Sounds like the plan for me!

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On Jun 5, 2010, at 5:00 AM, Maurice McCarthy <manselton@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Jorge
>
> With a default installation transferring a cd or dvd from one amd64
> machine to another will look after itself. The software manager will
> find it and know what to do with it. An even more cunning plan might
> be to set up your own ubuntu mirror inside the school. Then instead of
> installing on each pc from aptoncd you can use aptoncd to update the
> mirror which then feeds the rest. Might not be politically correct
> though. Have a look at apt-mirror, debmirror and partial-mirror. I've
> never actually done this myself.
>
> Regards
> Maurice
>
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I'm baaccckkkk!!!!!

My tech guy finally got back to me regarding the blocked *.bz2 files
messing up my sudo aptitude update. Now he says he set up a proxy for
me. I think I know how to enable that in Firefox, but how do I make
use of a proxy using aptitude?

TIA,
A. Jorge Garcia
Applied Math & CS
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On 17 June 2010 13:49, Calcpage <calcpage@aol.com> wrote:
> On Jun 5, 2010, at 5:00 AM, Maurice McCarthy <manselton@gmail.com>
>...
> My tech guy finally got back to me regarding the blocked *.bz2 files
> messing up my sudo aptitude update. *Now he says he set up a proxy for
> me. * I think I know how to enable that in Firefox, but how do I make
> use of a proxy using aptitude?

If you go to Synaptic package manager (System, Administration,
Synaptic Package Manager and then select Settings, Preferences and
look on the Network tab there is a setting for proxy which should also
cover apt-get and aptitude I believe.

Colin

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On Jun 17, 2010, at 8:57 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 17 June 2010 13:49, Calcpage <calcpage@aol.com> wrote:
>> On Jun 5, 2010, at 5:00 AM, Maurice McCarthy <manselton@gmail.com>
>> ...
>> My tech guy finally got back to me regarding the blocked *.bz2 files
>> messing up my sudo aptitude update. Now he says he set up a proxy
>> for
>> me. I think I know how to enable that in Firefox, but how do I make
>> use of a proxy using aptitude?
>
> If you go to Synaptic package manager (System, Administration,
> Synaptic Package Manager and then select Settings, Preferences and
> look on the Network tab there is a setting for proxy which should also
> cover apt-get and aptitude I believe.
>
> Colin
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I went to system/admin/synaptic and clicked settings/pref/network and
added the manual proxy config but still no joy.

Then I simply tried system/pref/networkproxy applied the manual proxy
system wide and then system/admin/softwaresources to add the canonical
partner repos. I got the update to run finally without any of the
*.bz2 errors I had been getting! Alleluia!

Then I tried sudo aptitude install sun-java6-bin and got the jre stuff
installed, then I did sudo aptitude install sun-java6-plugin. I
checked aboutlugins in firefox and all is well finally!

A few weird notes: installing sun-java6-bin does not get sun-java6-
plugin,
installing sun-java6-plugin does not get sun-java6-bin and running
sudo aptitude safe-upgrade before installing jre fubars the
installation: I get an error about file size mismatch on sun-java6-
jre_6.20dlj-1ubuntu3_all.deb!

Thanx,
A. Jorge Garcia
Applied Math & CS
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