kdewin-installer-gui and a proxy

[Ralf Habacker]

Jeff Schiller schrieb:
> Thanks Ralf but this didn't work.
>
> I keep getting "...Add Mirror..." in the GUI.  My password has some
> special characters, so I even tried URL encoding them...
>
> It also keeps coming back with a "Can't find C:/temp-kde4/config.txt
>
> Any other suggestions?
>   
Please make sure, that the line debug=all is in installer.ini. Then try 
again and send me the kdewin-installer.log and installer.ini in a 
private mail.

Regards
 Ralf


> Jeff
>
>
> On Nov 13, 2007 9:43 AM, Ralf Habacker <ralf.habacker at freenet.de> wrote:
>   
>> Jeff Schiller schrieb:
>>
>>     
>>> I tried to use the latest kdewin-installer-gui from
>>> http://download.cegit.de/kde-windows/installer/ but at work I'm behind
>>> a proxy that requires a user.  I found this email
>>> http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-windows/2007-April/000888.html by
>>> Ralf that hints why it's not working for me.
>>>
>>> Below are some relevant portions of the kdewin-installer.log:
>>>
>>> [2007-11-13 09:04:44] Debug:Downloading
>>> "http://82.149.170.66/kde-windows/installer/config.txt"  to
>>> "C:/kde4/config.txt"
>>> [2007-11-13 09:04:44] Debug:Downloader proxy settings - host:
>>> "my.proxy.server.com" port: 1080
>>> [2007-11-13 09:04:44] Debug:Downloader state changed: "Connecting "
>>> [2007-11-13 09:04:44] Debug:Downloader state changed: "Sending    "
>>> [2007-11-13 09:04:44] Debug:Downloader state changed: "Reading    "
>>> [2007-11-13 09:04:44] Warning:Download failed: Proxy authentication required.
>>> [2007-11-13 09:04:44] Debug:Downloader state changed: "Closing    "
>>> [2007-11-13 09:04:44] Debug:Downloader state changed: "Unconnected"
>>>
>>> Does it mean that if a user login/password is required that I cannot
>>> use the installer?
>>>
>>>       
>> The gui does not support entering user/password altough it should be
>> possible to use a proxy with username/password with the following receipt.
>>
>> edit the installer config file with the following command line command
>>
>>     notepad "%APPDATA%\kde\installer.ini"
>>
>> then change the url in the line starting with "mirror=" from for example
>>
>>    mirror=http://download.cegit.de/kde-windows
>>
>> to
>>
>>    mirror=http://<username>:<password>@download.cegit.de/kde-windows
>>
>> Then start the installer (version >= 0.8.0) from the command line with
>>
>> kdewin-installer-gui-0.8.1
>> http://<username>:<password>@download.cegit.de/kde-windows
>>
>> Then you should be able to use the installer
>>
>> If you have still problems let me know.
>>
>> Regards
>>  Ralf
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     
>>     
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>>       
>>