Re: Can apt-get work via a proxy?
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:
> Err http://www.au.debian.org stable/main stow 1.3.2-11
> 407 Proxy authorization required
> Failed to fetch http://www.au.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/a
> dmin/stow_1.3.2-11.deb
> 407 Proxy authorization required
> E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe try with --fix-missing?
>
>
> The problem is due to the fact that my http proxy sometimes asks for
> authorization. Under netscape it pops up a dialog box asking for my
> name and a password. I am presuming this capability hasn't been built
> into apt. Any chance that it will be soon?
You need to specify authorization credentials in advance,
export http_proxy="http://user:pass@proxy/
Read the sources.list man page for information about this.
Jason
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