Proxy authentication

[BHASKAR]

Hiee I( was tryin to download and install nvidia drivers using envyng but it's always displayin an error message as follows "407 Proxy Authentication Required". I think I have given the proxy authorizations in network proxy in System>Preferences and also in Synaptic manager. Can you people help me out if I did miss an place where I'm supposed to give authorization or else help me to come out of this situation> Awaiting a simple and elegant solution form all you guys ..........

[Admin-Amir]

You need to go into System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager -> Settings -> Preferences -> Network and configure proxy for your machine.

try to edit /etc/apt/apt.conf (If there is no file available make new file)
Add the following lines to the file

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Acquire::http::Proxy "http://user:[email protected]:port/";
Acquire::ftp::Proxy "http://user:[email protected]:port/";

[BHASKAR]

but this is not helpin coz i cant edit this file, it says i donn hav da permission 2 do so, wat am i 2 do nw?

[DarkChild]

but this is not helpin coz i cant edit this file, it says i donn hav da permission 2 do so, wat am i 2 do nw?

In order to get root privilege so that you can edit the file, you need to open a "Terminal" an type :

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sudo nautilus

This will launch a window that you will use to navigate to the file you want to edit!!

[Moebius]

but this is not helpin coz i cant edit this file, it says i donn hav da permission 2 do so, wat am i 2 do nw?

Or you could take the lazy approach and simply right click on the file, choose scripts, then gedit root. This is the quick n easy approach where you don't really learn anything. With DarkChilds approach, you actually learn something (sudo command)

Cheers.

[BHASKAR]

thanks a lot but i hav found another path for solving this neways thanks for your help and once again to mention here moebius retains his identity