On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Vincent Murphy wrote: > I am interested in finding out about apt and deity. I would appreciate if > someone would inform me of a website or somewhere where I can get > introductory information.
map apt-get, man sources.list, less /usr/doc/apt/guide.text.gz > Specifically, i was wondering ring whether it would be possible for me to > install packages using http, thru a http proxy. I am inside a firewall, > and cannot ftp or NFS outside. Just so you know what kind of proxy I'm > talking about, I just put in it's hostname and port 80 in netscape, and it > works away fine. Is it possible to use apt the same way? export http_proxy="http://proxy.server.com:80/"; apt-get update Jason
