pkcon install fails -- proxy?
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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aptdaemon (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Xenial Desktop. I am behind a proxy but have no idea how to configure a proxy for pkcon.
Proxies are set and working in /etc/environment and /etc/apt
$ sudo apt-get install packagekit-tools
$ pkcon install pianobar
Command failed: The proxy could not be set: GDBus.Error:
File "/usr/lib/
(candidate_
File "/usr/lib/
raise UnknownMethodEx
dbus.exceptions
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: packagekit-tools 0.8.17-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-124-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.18
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu May 31 15:39:40 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-01-08 (1239 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
SourcePackage: packagekit
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-09-23 (615 days ago)
This very much looks like a bug int Aptdaemon's PK compatibility layer to me. At this point, it likely makes no sense to fix this issue, since that code has been dropped after the Xenial release.
@tlc: This will likely be a won't fix bug, please upgrade to Bionic if you can. If you can't upgrade, you can try to switch from the compat layer to the real PK daemon, if the system allows you to do that: aptdaemon. pkcompat ; sudo apt install packagekit
sudo apt purge python3-