Re: Can apt-get work via a proxy?

[Mitch Blevins <mblevin@mindspring.com>]

In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> > export http_proxy="http://myproxy:port/";
> > apt-get foo..
> 
> You sent me this reply a while ago.  Up till now I haven't had to use
> it, but today I needed to, but had this problem with it:
> 
> 
> 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?

just use http_proxy="http://mylogin:mypassword@myproxy:port/";

This is documented in 'man sources.list'

-Mitch