Re: apt-get proxy setup

[Jean-Paul Blaquiere <japester@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>]

> On May 22, Peter Firmstone scratched in indelible ink :

> I'm relatively new to debian and I'm having a little confusion setting
> up my /etc/apt/sources.list file for use behind a squid proxy-firewall.
> 
> deb http://squid.cqu.edu.au:3128/www.au.debian.org/debian stable main
> contrib non-US
> 
exporting the http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment variables will fix
this.   (man sources.list)

bash/sh/ksh
export http_proxy='squid.cqu.edu.au:3128'

or csh:
setenv http_proxy='squid.cqu.edu.au:3128'

/Jp.
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