Re: Debian installation - list of things that make it hard

[Mitch Blevins <mblevin@mindspring.com>]

In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> 	Oh, and a final question that isn't so rhetorical.  Is it possible  
> to use apt from behind a corporate firewall that does *not* seem to do IP  
> forwarding or masquerading?
> 	I don't know much about firewalls, but I work at a big company where  
> I can pretty much guarantee I have no influence over its configuration.  Can  
> apt be told about a proxy in the way that, say, lynx can?

set the http_proxy environment variable.  See 'man sources.list' for
details.

-Mitch