On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, maarten wrote: > Hi, > I'm fairly new at Debian, and GNU/Linux in general, so please: no flaming ;) > > I've got a winmodem (oh, the agony), and two computers forming a network. > The computer with the modem has a windows installation access to the > Internet. It's also got this neat little program called AnalogX Proxy, which > isn't really a proxy, but acts like one. > This allows me to surf on two computers at once, at least if both of them are > on Windows. > > The problem is: I want to upgrade my Slink&a-half version of Debian to Woody, > using apt-get. But I don't know how to make apt-get use my proxy-computer. > (Does this make any sence at all?) > > The networkcard is working OK under Debian, I can ping the other comp. but > pinging anything outside the network is 100% failure. > Does anyone know what to do? >
You can use apt through an http proxy by setting an environment variable as follows: http_proxy="http://proxy.external.company.com:80/"; I forget where this is documented, but it is, and it works for me.
