Michael Sry wrote: > Hello, > I have a problem with apt-get. To connect to the internet, there is > an automatic proxy configuration URL. Apt-get tries to get to the > internet without connecting to the proxy first. How do I tell > apt-get to go to that proxy before connecting to the interent. The way I handle it is by setting environment variables: http_proxy=http://webproxy.x.y:8080 no_proxy=localhost The advantage of using the environment instead of the apt.conf is this also lets wget and lynx work. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James Richardson
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