Also, you can put the following in /etc/apt/apt.conf Accquire::http::Proxy "http://username:password@proxyhost:portnumber";; The quotes and semicolon at the end are necessary or apt will say that there is junk at the end of the config file. I don't think anyone has suggested this one yet. On Thursday 23 February 2006 07:24 am, Deephay wrote: > Greetings all, > > I want to know that if I can set a proxy for the APT utilities such as > apt-get? thx! > > Deephay