apt-get with a proxy

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@futureks.net>]

I cannot get apt-get to work with an HTTP proxy.  I'm using squid as the
proxy server.

I issue the following commands:

export http_proxy="http://server:3128/";  (where server is the name of the
						proxy machine)
apt-get install blah			 (where blah is an actual package
						name :-)

And I get the following:
Err http://http.us.debian.org stable/main wget 1.5.3-1.1
  504 Gateway Time-out
Failed to fetch
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/web/wget_1.5.3-1.1.deb
  504 Gateway Time-out
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe try with --fix-missing?

On the proxy server, looking at /var/log/squid/access.log I see:

316055347.030 119543 xx.xx.xx.xx TCP_MISS/504 1161 GET
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/web/wget_1.5.3-1.1.deb
- DIRECT/http.us.debian.org -

When I test the proxy with lynx it works fine.  What's the deal?



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