Error "http_proxy not set. please set environment variable" during SDK for Perl or vCLI installation

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

• When you install the SDK for Perl or the vSphere Command-Line Interface on a Linux system, you may see errors similar to:
  
  http_proxy not set. please set environment variable 'http_proxy' e.g. export
  http_proxy= http://myproxy.mydomain.com:0000
  
  ftp_proxy not set. please set environment variable 'ftp_proxy' e.g. export
  ftp_proxy= http://myproxy.mydomain.com:0000
  
  
• This error is reported in environments that do not use proxies.

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1

Resolution

The installer expects explicit proxy settings. This will be resolved in a future release.

For vSphere 5.1 installers, set the proxy to to be empty, for example:

export http_proxy=
export ftp_proxy=