Anthony Fok wrote:
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:49:57AM +0800, Yang Shouxun wrote:
Dear Debian users,
Because I'm behind a Wingate, I don't have direct access to http or ftp.
Someone suggests set http_proxy and ftp_proxy in /etc/environment, but
that seems to be not working.
Actually, not
Anthony Fok wrote:
Actually, not to /etc/environment, but to /etc/apt/apt.conf.
For example, I used to use this:
Acquire::http::proxy "http://nocache.srv.ualberta.ca:8080/";;
Please let me know if that solves your problem.
Thanks for the info. More information can be found in apt.con
Yang Shouxun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Because I'm behind a Wingate, I don't have direct access to http or ftp.
>Someone suggests set http_proxy and ftp_proxy in /etc/environment, but
>that seems to be not working. In a word, I cannot find any hostname in a
>terminal, and apt-get won't work fo
Peter =?iso-8859-1?q?Sch=FCller?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Nate Amsden wrote:
>> I hate to say it but the problems your having were caused by you
>> wanting to use knowingly unstable program versions. you probably
>> should of asked the list before attempting what you did as some
>> people may o
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:49:57AM +0800, Yang Shouxun wrote:
> Dear Debian users,
>
> Because I'm behind a Wingate, I don't have direct access to http or ftp.
> Someone suggests set http_proxy and ftp_proxy in /etc/environment, but
> that seems to be not working.
Actually, not to /etc/environme
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> any particular reason you need perl 5.6 and xfree86 4? perl 5.6 is
> not part of debian stable(for good reason if you've read the archives
> it is a source of problems from time to time in unstable). same
> for xfree86 4, it is not "stable" yet so it
Yang Shouxun wrote:
> I found Debian's package management strategy often frustrated me.
i haven't.
> Because I'm behind a Wingate, I don't have direct access to http or ftp.
that can be a problem. im not sure what kind of proxy wingate is.
> Someone suggests set http_proxy and ftp_proxy in /e
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