Re: APT for sid

["Jules Bean" <jules@jellybean.co.uk>]

--On Fri, Nov 6, 1998 2:48 pm +0530 "Sanjeev Gupta"
<ghane@arjun.eurolink.stpn.soft.net> wrote: 

> Folks,
> 
> downloaded tftp, installed base2
> 
> The machine I am installing on is behind a web proxy.  I think I may be
> able to use http_proxy from apt, to install everything else.  Is there
> such a thing?  Or a better(?) way?

I reckon that's the best way.

It works with an environment variable (ugly, I know).

Something like:

export http_proxy="http://firewall.veryparanoid.com:1234";
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

Jules

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