How do I use MX Tools & Updater behind a proxy

[fishface]

I have MX18.3 installed, I'm behind a proxy and can only get a few things to work.

I have exported my proxy variable to /etc/environment, /etc/profile and my .bashrc, it sort of fixed it, but MX Tools and MX Package Installer fail to work.

If I switch to root and use the terminal and manually export my proxy variables, and the run, as an example, apt-get install terminator it works, but just for that session.

Firefox I've got working by setting the proxy within Firefox ,but it doesn't work for Google Chrome, when I edit the proxy settings in Chrome I get a message that the proxy settings are not supported.

I tried this and it failed

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$ /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable %U --proxy-server="http://10.0.0.1"
[12718:12718:0919/132035.946868:ERROR:browser_dm_token_storage_linux.cc(100)] Error: /etc/machine-id contains 0 characters (32 were expected).

Is there away I can get MX Tools and Updater working better than this?

Thanks

[fishface]

Well I've got MX Tools and updater working, not sure which fixed it, adding all case options to the export variables, or installing gnome-control-center

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export http_proxy=http://proxy:apasswd@proxy.local:8080
export HTTP_PROXY=http://proxyuser:apasswd@proxy.local:8080
export https_proxy=https://proxyuser:apasswd@proxy.local:8080
export HTTPS_PROXY=https://proxyuser:apasswd@proxy.local:8080
export ftp_proxy=https://proxyuser:apasswd@proxy.local:8080
export FTP_PROXY=https://proxyuser:apasswd@proxy.local:8080

Ok, got Chrome working now, so all is good!

[crofiton]

I have a similar problem, though I didn't quite understand what gnome-control-center is, can you explain in more detail how to make MX Tools and Updater work with each other.

[Utopia]

This is a very old topic. Please, start your own. Locking this one now.
Henry