On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Tony Crawford wrote: > Apt-get wants proper URLs, but I have a proxy server on a Windows > machine on the LAN, and the Linux box at this stage of the game > staunchly refuses to see anything on the Internet, by name or by > IP number (I've compared the route table and the network script > and the ifconfig eth0 with other people's posts--I've been > lurking--but to no avail). So: Is there a way I can get apt to > do a proxy request to my local Windows proxy server, which has no > trouble finding the Internet?
Set http_proxy to point to your proxy server, ie export http_proxy="http://172.16.1.1:3128/"; The sources.list man page explains this. Jason
