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SyneRBI / SyneRBI_VM

Virtual Machine with pre-installed SyneRBI software
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install network_manager? #79

Closed KrisThielemans closed 6 years ago

KrisThielemans commented 6 years ago

From Johannes Mayer

I would like to comment that it is not straight forward to connect the VM to the internet if you sit behind a proxy. What makes it hard is that in the native image downloaded from the SIRF webpage, in the settings the "Network manager" is not installed and needs to be installed manually. Since one is not connected to the internet this becomes hard and I required a workaround which Christoph showed me (below).

One needs to have the network manager in order to a) be able to easily enter the proxy infos and b) easily change to a regular setting when connecting to a different network.

I would like to suggest that either the Network manager is installed in the image offered for download, or that instructions are given on the webpage how to go online behind a proxy. Either way I think some instructions regarding the setup of the proxy could be helpful on the webpage.

The installation of the network manager can be done by running in the terminal "sudo apt-get install network-manager network-manager-gnome"

This, however, requires connection to the internet, so one can work around it creating a file named /etc/apt/apt.conf (using VIM, or Spyder, or nano) and entering the lines

Acquire::http::proxy "http://theproxy:port/"; Acquire::https::proxy "https://theproxy:port/"; Acquire::ftp::proxy "ftp://theproxy:port/";

WITH semicolons at the end, save the file, then run the download of the network manager and enter the settings there in the "Manual" tab and apply them system wide.

KrisThielemans commented 6 years ago

@casperdcl, @bathomas, @nikefth. Any reason not to

sudo apt-get install network-manager network-manager-gnome

only 20MB download.