Friday 17 March 2017

Adding an apt repository from behind a proxy

Generally adding an apt repository from behind a proxy does not go well i.e. it ends with a "end of file". The reason being that the http_proxy and the https_proxy environment variables are not preserved in the sudo's environment.

To fix this we need to edit the sudoers file to have the following lines:


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Defaults env_keep+="http_proxy"
Defaults env_keep+="https_proxy"

Please remember to separate the "Defaults" and "env_keep" with a tab.

In this way the http_proxy and https_proxy will be preserved for the add-apt-repository to fetch the keys and the repo info.

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