Re: dselect/firewall

[Pietro Cagnoni <pcagnoni@mclink.net>]

> At work, our internet access is from a proxyserver.  Is there anyway I can set
> dselect on my Debian 2.2r2 laptop to access through the proxyserver, while I'm at
> work.

1) set your /etc/apt/sources.list to retrieve everything by http, e.g.

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free

2) write this at the top of /etc/apt/apt.conf, with your real proxy name
and port:

Acquire::http::Proxy "http://proxy.your.com:8080";;

3) try it! it worked for me!