Re: X won't start

[Josh Huber <huber@debian.org>]

Marc Stergionis <stermarc@mac.com> writes:

> OR is there a way to get apt-get or dselect to force a
> firewall-password prompt?

Oh!  You're using an http-proxy?  I'm sorry, perhaps I missed that
fact from the start of the thread.

You'll need to setup http proxy settings.  In /etc/apt/apt.conf you
should put something like:

Acquire::HTTP::Proxy "http://user:password@http.proxy.address";;

Or, just to test (without editing that file) you can set the
"http_proxy" environment variable to that same value.  The environment
variable will override the settings in apt.conf, btw.

Hope that helps,

-- 
Josh Huber                                   | huber@debian.org |


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