"Stan Brown" <stanb@awod.com> writes: > I have a Debian stable machine located atw ork behind a very restrictive > firewall. I don have a machine runing squid that can be used as a HTTP only > proxy to get through it. > > How do I set this up? Easy. Just set the environment variable "http_proxy". The line in my root accounts .profile looks like: http_proxy="http://proxymachine:80/"; export http_proxy and apt works like a champ. Gary