Re: set proxy with socks5 to use apt-get

[andy@ahss.de (Andreas Hofmann)]

>. How to set apt-get to through this proxy server to
>go to Internet. I tried this
>  set http_proxy="my_proxy_addres:port"
>  set ftp_proxy="my_proxy_addres:port"
>but it not working. 

if you type "echo $http_proxy" you will seee, that the environment
variable has not been set. you have to use "export" instead:

export http_proxy="my_proxy_addres:port"
export ftp_proxy="my_proxy_addres:port"

have fun !