Re: aptitude upgrade through proxy

[Kumar Appaiah <akumar@iitm.ac.in>]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:51:44PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:
> However I've tried the same environment variables with aptitude with
> no luck...  Looks like aptitude doesn't pay attention to them.  Does
> any one know how to overcome this?  Also, I liked the environment
> variables solution because it can be temporally enabled/disabled,
> without having to edit a config file everytime one wants to change...
> I've tried looking in the man page, but didn't find anything...

Try adding this to /etc/apt/apt.conf:

Acquire {
  // HTTP method configuration
  http {
    Proxy "http://<myproxy>:<port>";
  };
};

HTH.

Kumar
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