Re: apt-get and proxy setting

[Bec Dridan <rdrid@dridan.com>]

Sridhar M.A. 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";
Do you mean http_proxy? I thought it had to be lower-case.
I've also found I needed to have a / after the port as in:
   export http_proxy="http://203.195.221.129:3128/";

See if that fixes it.

HTH,

Bec Dridan