Re: Using dselect With a Proxy Server
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Misanthrope wrote:
> Hello, I have just installed Linux for the first time and am having a few slight difficulties...At present I am running the stable distribution, or slink, and I can't seem to get dselect's asp package selection method working with my home network. My machine is a an i586 166 connected via RJ-45 to a hub (inactive or "stupid") and then to my home's proxy server, a 486DX4 100 running Windows 95 (fully updated) which is in turn running WinProxy version 2.1R2h (I want to set up a linux server but my parents won't let me until I can provide a valid reason; a rather difficult task as I can't even manage to get my machine to install packages...). I can FTP out manually by FTPing to my proxyserver, which then provides me with a prompt for user@site...Example:
>
> Munin/~/ftp 10.10.10.2
> 10.10.10.2 ready: anonymous@ftp.debian.org
>
> afterwhich it connects and acts normally...My sole question is how may I get dselect to function with this? Here are a few things which may, in some way help:
>
> HTTP Port: 10.10.10.2:80
> FTP Port: 10.10.10.2:21
> Socks5 Port: 1080
do
export http_proxy="http://10.10.10.2:80/";
Then edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change all your URIs to http
Alternativly, you can setup APT to speak to that ftp proxy, but that is
probably lots more trouble than it is worth.
Jason
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