[CentOS] INSTALLING UPDATES-PROXY PROBLEM

[arun kumar]

hey, iam extremly sorry for giving u trouble,
as u said i set the environment....
this is the outcome after that
[BTIS at WORKSTATION3 ~]$ env | grep -i http_proxy
http_proxy=http://asomavarapu@actrec.gov.in:dbsa121@10.100.15.3:8080
HTTP_PROXY=http://asomavarapu@actrec.gov.in:dbsa121@10.100.15.3:8080
[BTIS at WORKSTATION3 ~]$

and this is the file of .bash_profile that i edited

# .bash_profile

# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
    . ~/.bashrc
fi

# User specific environment and startup programs

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin

export PATH

export http_proxy="http://asomavarapu@actrec.gov.in:dbsa121@10.100.15.3:8080
"
export HTTP_PROXY="http://asomavarapu@actrec.gov.in:dbsa121@10.100.15.3:8080
"

then i tried the command yum check-updates    ,then this is the outcome

[BTIS at WORKSTATION3 ~]$ yum check-update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit
Could not retrieve mirrorlist
http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=i386&repo=os error was
14: PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 407"
Could not retrieve mirrorlist
http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=i386&repo=centosplus error was
14: PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 407"
Could not retrieve mirrorlist
http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=i386&repo=extras error was
14: PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 407"
http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 407"
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:
google-chrome. Please verify its path and try again
[BTIS at WORKSTATION3 ~]$

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Prabhpal S. Mavi <
prabhpal at digital-infotech.net> wrote:

> Hi Arun,
>
> Please understand and do as Johnny advised, it will fix your problem.
> Thanks
> > On 03/27/2012 03:47 AM, arun kumar wrote:
> >> sorry for not mentioning before that iam new to linux
> >>
> >> i have full access to internet, this is an educational institution,
> >> every
> >> one have there seperate username and pasword for login...
> >> so i used the my username and password in the yum.conf file..
> >>
> >> i tried from GUI also like
> >>
> >> system->Administration-> software update                 ,then i got the
> >> folowing warning and error
> >>
> >> Software Update Viewer is running as a privileged user
> >> Package management applications are security sensitive.
> >> Running graphical applications as a privileged user should be avoided
> >> for
> >> security reasons.
> >>
> >> problem connecting to software source
> >>
> >> i also tried
> >> system->Administration->Add/Remove software
> >>
> >> iam not understanding what else to try
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > If you do not have the Environment variable set for http_proxy, then
> > curl will not work.  This seems like your problem to me.
> >
> > To see if you have http_proxy set as an environment variable, use this
> > command:
> >
> > env | grep -i http_proxy
> >
> > You need to check the above variable for both your "root user" and your
> > "local user" (local user's variables would be used if you are running
> > yum with sudo or su root ... root user would be used if you did "su -
> > root" or logged in directly as root.
> >
> > If the result is in caps, like this:
> >
> > HTTP_PROXY=http://my_username:mypassword@10.101.16.4:8080
> >
> > Then curl might have an issue, so also add it in lower case like this:
> >
> > http_proxy="http://my_username:mypassword@10.101.16.4:8080"
> >
> > So, If you do not have a lower case "http_proxy=", then you would set it
> > in your root's ".bash_profile" file and your local user's
> > ".bash_profile" file.  This is the line you would add to both users
> > .bash_profile:
> >
> > export http_proxy="http://my_username:mypassword@10.101.16.4:8080"
> >
> > After making the change, log out and back in to have the variables take
> > effect and then check them again with the grep command above ...
> >
> > Once you have the correct lower case variable set for "http_proxy=" for
> > both your normal local user and for root, you should be able to use yum
> > and curl.
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >>> If the proxy server requires a username and password, add these to the
> >>> URL. To include the username |yum-user| and the password |qwerty|, add
> >>> these settings:
> >>>
> >>> |# The Web proxy server, with the username and password for this
> >>> account
> >>> http_proxy="http://yum-user:qwerty@mycache.mydomain.com:3128"
> >>> export http_proxy|
> >>>
> >>> *Example 5. Profile Settings for a Secured Proxy Server*
> >>>
> >>> [Note]        The |http_proxy| Environment Variable
> >>>
> >>> The |http_proxy| environment variable is also used by |curl| and other
> >>> utilities. Although |yum| itself may use |http_proxy| in either
> >>> upper-case or lower-case, |curl| requires the name of the variable to
> >>> be
> >>> in lower-case.
> >>>
> >
> >
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> Prabhpal S. Mavi
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Dr. Prasanna's lab
TMC, ACTREC
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