Re: How to update thru proxy?

[Paul Dwerryhouse <paul@dwerryhouse.com.au>]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 08:14:52AM +0100, belahcene wrote:
> I want to upgrade my system ( or a package) by using the debian network, 
> but I need to go thru a proxy, is there a possibility to do it. by 
> default the apt-get update tries directly the net.

Before running apt-get, set your http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment
variables. Eg:

export http_proxy=http://your.proxy.host:8080/
export ftp_proxy=http://your.proxy.host:8080/

apt-get update

...etc.

Cheers,

Paul

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