Some tips & tricks while working behind corporate firewall/proxy on Ubuntu(11)
1. Setting up proxy server on Ubuntu
export http_proxy=’http://{DOMAIN}\{USERNAME}:{PASSWORD}@{PROXY HOST NAME}:{PORT}/’
2. Setting up proxy for apt-get
Acquire::http::Proxy ‘http://{DOMAIN}\{USERNAME}:{PASSWORD}@{PROXY HOST NAME}:{PORT}/’;
Acquire::https::Proxy ‘https://{DOMAIN}\{USERNAME}:{PASSWORD}@{PROXY HOST NAME}:{PORT}/’;
if you have “@” symbol in your password use %40
3. Turn off firewall
ufw disable
4. Install Vmware tools
mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
cp /media/cdrom/VMwareTools-8.3.7-341836.tar.gz /tmp
tar zxvf /tmp/VMwareTools-8.3.7-341836.tar.gz
cd /tmp/vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
5. Install git
apt-get git-core gitosis
6. Howto configure network
https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/network-configuration.html
7. If you are looking for one stop shop for Ubuntu release apart from the LTS version here is the link http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/
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