On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 04:18:07PM +0200, debian-user-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am facing some problems in getting apt-get to retrieve files through
> http proxy setting. I tried the following:
>
> 1. Set the environment variable as
>
> export HTTP_PROXY="http://203.195.221.129:3128";
>
> Still when I give apt-get update, I get messages telling that
> connection is refused from the hosts (www.debian.org,
> marillat.free.fr, et al.)
>
> 2. Created /etc/apt.conf as below:
>
> APT {
> Acquire {
> http {
> Proxy "http://203.195.221.129:3128";;
> };
> };
> };
>
> Still the same result.
>
> Browsing the docs threw up the second solution.
>
> My question is how can I make apt-get to retrieve the files with the
> above setting? FWIW, I am able to download files using wget by putting
> the above setting in /etc/wgetrc.
AFAIK you also have to make sure that the sources.list contains
repositories with the correct fetch method, i.e. http.
/M
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