Are you SURE the http_proxy is set when running the pacman command? Try doing something like (also add in the https proxy in case): user@host$ http_proxy='http://proxy.name_of_uni.edu.my:8080' ftp_proxy='...' https_proxy='...' pacman .... I have a one line script that just has (i don't use ftp): #!/bin/bash http_proxy='http://proxy:8080' https_proxy='https://proxy:8080' $* save as pprox and then run: user@host$ pprox pacman .... and it works great. good luck! On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 16:47:24 +0800 Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Eliseo Ocampos <roskoff@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk@gmail.com> wrote:
So I just tried a new install, it works and even got updated the first time. Left it over the weekend, now that I'm back on it (still quite bare, nothing much set up yet) I can't seem to get pacman connected to the mirrors.
This machine is a university machine and needs to connect via proxy.name_of_uni.edu.my:8080, so I've set http_proxy and ftp_proxy to the right values. Also substituted in the actual IP addresses with the same results.
What happens is that all the mirrors get the following (with wget uncommented in pacman.conf, similar results even when not using wget) Connecting to mirrors.kernel.org|149.20.4.71|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Ironically, when I try to wget the db file itself through wget http://mirrrors.kernel.org/archlinux/testing/os/i686/testing.db it downloads fine.... Any idea what the problem could be?
Hi there, try to add a trailing slash to your proxy URL: proxy.name_of_uni.edu.my:8080/
HTH, Eliseo.
Tried that, no difference. If its something as simple as that, my normal download using wget wouldn't work, would it?