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Re: apt-problems



On 18/10/02 Jacques Kotze did speaketh:

> I am behind the firewall of my University. There exists an archive with 
> the full resource of Debian behind the firewall that I would like to get 
> access to using apt-get inorder to complete a full package installation 
> of my system.
> 
> I have configured my ethernet card and DNS lookup successfully and the 
> file structure of the ftp site listed in my sources.list is correct.
> 
> My sources.list looks like:
> -----
> deb ftp://archive.sun.ac.za/debian/non-US woody/non-US main non-free
> deb ftp://archive.sun.ac.za/debian woody main contrib non-free
> deb-src ftp://archive.sun.ac.za/debian woody main contrib non-free
> deb-src ftp://archive.sun.ac.za/debian/non-US woody/non-US main contrib 
> non-free
> ----

    Does your university permit ftp and/or http through the firewall? Try
changing from ftp to http and see if it works. 

    Mike

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