Proxy ignored with sudo pip3 command

[mk-pmb]

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  • Bug is in README.md in master, so no build necessary.

Issue Reproduce Instructions

1. Follow the install instructions for Ubuntu
2. Especially sudo pip3 install WoeUSB-ng

Expected Behavior

Collecting WoeUSB-ng … Collecting termcolor … etc.

Current Behavior

WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x7f542d5577c0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -2] Name or service not known')': /simple/woeusb-ng/

Info of My Environment

• I use a proxy, defined in environment variables http_proxy and https_proxy

Solution

any of these:

• Invoke sudo with -E
• Invoke sudo with --preserve-env
• any other means to set the proxy variables so pip can see them.

I suggest we use the -E variant in the install instructions.

[WaxyMocha]

Hi,
this doesn't work?
https://stackoverflow.com/a/20818379

[mk-pmb]

@WaxyMocha
Giving the proxy as explicit argument would probably work as well. However, especially for more complex proxy configs (e.g. with exclude lists), it's waaaay easier to just type -E to have sudo pass the environment. The new command in the readme would thus be sudo -E pip3 install WoeUSB-ng