"Colquhoun, Ian:" wrote: > > First let me apologize for the seemingly basic question but I have exhausted > all the documentation on apt and I don't know where else to turn. > > What I'm trying to do is to get apt-get to work through a SOCKS firewall. > Now, I basically know nothing about SOCKS but I have the IP address and port > from the network guys. I've tried various settings of the http_proxy > environment variable but I just can't seem to get it to work. If someone > could help me along it would be greatly appreciated! > > Please CC: me directly on your response as I'm not actually subscribed to > the list. > > Thanks, > Ian. I guess you're gonna have to figure out a way to get a package called socks4-clients through your firewall first :). This package puts clients' requests through the proxy like so:
apt-get lynx www.linux.com. chris
