[SOLVED] Pacman and yaourt not working when run with "sudo"

Hi,
I am an Arch newbie, just installed Arch 3.10 on my machine. I access internet through a proxy server and I'm facing this strange problem -
Pacman is unable to fetch packages when I run it through sudo - "sudo pacman -S smplayer" (It gives network unreachable error).
However when I run it through root, it retrieves those same packages successfully.
yaourt also faces a similar kind of problem -
When I run it through sudo or as root, it is unable to retrieve packages which can be downloaded by pacman. But, when I run pacman to download those same packages, it is able to do so.
I am using gnome 3.8, and use radiotray ( It's for listening online radios ). When I run it via 'Alt-F2' or as a startup application, it's not able to connect to any radio station ( which means it's not connecting to the internet ). However, on running it via terminal, it connects to the internet successfully. Are these 2 problems related ? I'm facing the first one even without loading gnome, so it's not gnome's problem, i guess.
I can ping successfully through my administrator as well as root account, connect to the internet via browser, and ssh, git, bzr are also working fine.
What can I do to resolve this ?
Thanks
Last edited by parinporecha (2013-09-12 06:01:06)

parinporecha wrote:
To configure proxy, I added the line "export http_proxy=PROXY_LINK" to the bashrc files of user and root.
Regarding Arch 3.10, yes i meant the installation media from 2013.09.01 ( kernel 3.10 )
That's why root works, but not sudo. Sudo clears the environment. See man sudo and man sudoers.

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