I'm trying to install jhbuild. When I give jhbuild build command it gives me error -
jhbuild build: could not download https://git.gnome.org/browse/jhbuild/plain/modulesets/gnome-apps-3.18.modules: <urlopen error Tunnel connection failed: 407 Proxy Authentication Required>
I'm behind a college proxy and Ubuntu 14.04. How do I find a way around this problem?
Probably your college proxy has some kind of authentication. Put the correct proxy settings in environment by adding this
export http_proxy="http://[username]:[password]@[proxy.server.com]:[port]"
export https_proxy="http://[username]:[password]@[proxy.server.com]:[port]"
in your .bashrc or any other init configuration files. Even after if it shows the same error, I came across a good tool proGY (An intermediate proxy authenticator). Also you will have to set your proxy url as above in git config also
git config --global http.proxy http://[username]:[password]@[proxy.server.com]:[port]
git config --global https.proxy http://[username]:[password]@[proxy.server.com]:[port]
If you college doesn't have other open ports as git protocol uses it, you should explicitly say jhbuild to use http:// git clone urls instead of git:// clone URLS.
repos['git.gnome.org'] = 'https://git.gnome.org/browse/'
repos['git.freedesktop.org'] = 'http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/'
repos['wayland.freedesktop.org'] = 'http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/wayland'
repos['gstreamer.freedesktop.org'] = 'http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/gstreamer'
repos['pulseaudio.freedesktop.org'] = 'http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/pulseaudio'
repos['telepathy.freedesktop.org'] = 'http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/telepathy'
repos['modemmanager.freedesktop.org'] = 'http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/ModemManager'
repos['git.savannah.nongnu.org'] = 'http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/'
repos['github.com'] = 'https://github.com/'
in your jhbuildrc file (in ~/.config/jhbuildrc)
