Re: apt.conf with proxy

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:31:05 -0300
Alejandro <alejandritox@ciudad.com.ar> wrote:

> People, I've a Debian Etch behind a proxy so I need to edit the
> /etc/apt/apt.conf file in order to get the repositories. I can't make it
> works and in Google I se diferent ways to edit the apt.conf file.
> 
> Please, can you tell me how the apt.conf file is if my http proxy is
> 192.168.1.1 with user aaa and password bbb ???

>From 'man apt.conf':

>   http
>           HTTP URIs; http::Proxy is the default http proxy to use. It is in
>           the standard form of http://[[user][:pass]@]host[:port]/. Per host
>           proxies can also be specified by using the form http::Proxy::<host>
>           with the special keyword DIRECT meaning to use no proxies. The
>           http_proxy environment variable will override all settings.
> 

Celejar