Re: proxies (with apt)
On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Andrew wrote:
> My isp works through a firewall, so I have to use an ftp proxy. I've
> tried setting it up the same way as the man page for sources.list says to
> do for an http proxy, but it doesn't seem to want to connect. One of the
> docs (I forget which) says that apt is very ftp-configureable, and to see
> the ftp.conf man page. Unfortunately, this doesn't exist. Can anyone help
> me out here?
Hmm, the latest and greatest APT does not support any FTP proxies, there
are an older perl ftp module for it that does support all ftp proxies but
has a few glitches.
You best bet is to use an HTTP proxy, sounds like you need authentication,
something like
export http_proxy="http://user@password:myisp.nz:port/";
Then look at http://www.debian.org/~jgg/Mirrors and pick a HTTP enabled
mirror.
Jason
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