Re: apt-setup with proxy

["Jonathan D. Proulx" <jon@ai.mit.edu>]

On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 01:06:18PM +0100, Hans-Christian Armingeon wrote:
:Hi,
:does anybody know, how to tell apt-setup that it has to use a proxy? I'm in a 
:network that only allows ftp through a proxy.
:
:Please reply to my e-mail johnny@allesklar.de because I'm not on debian-user.

You can configure this in /etc/apt/apt.conf (man apt.conf), you can
also the environment variable $http_proxy for http proxying (don't
know if $ftp_proxy works or not)

I usually use:
bash$ export http_proxy=http://my.proxy.edu:3128

-Jon