Peter Firmstone wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm relatively new to debian and I'm having a little confusion setting > up my /etc/apt/sources.list file for use behind a squid proxy-firewall. > > I can't seem to get the format right! > > I guessed that it may be: > > deb http://squid.cqu.edu.au:3128/www.au.debian.org/debian stable main > contrib non-US > > however this doesn't appear right as the proxy server returns the error: > 400 Bad Request > > What am I doing wrong?
I believe apt knows about http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment variables, so try to define them both as http://squid.cqu.edu:3128/ In case of bash: bash$ export http_proxy="http://squid.cqu.edu:3128/"; bash$ export ftp_proxy="http://squid.cqu.edu:3128/"; or, if in [t]csh: $ setenv http_proxy http://squid.cqu.edu:3128/ $ setenv ftp_proxy http://squid.cqu.edu:3128/ Best regards. --- Alex Titov
