Re: Can't run aptitude

[Dennis Wicks <wix@mgssub.com>]

Jochen Schulz wrote the following on 10/12/2008 08:06 AM:
> Dennis Wicks:
> > When I try to do nearly anything with aptitude I get
> >
> >     dgwicks:~# aptitude update
> >     Writing extended state information... Done
> >     Err http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg
> >       Could not connect to localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1). - connect
> >       (111 Connection refused)
>
> To me that looks like you have a http_proxy environment variable set.  I
> think Synaptic and aptitude honour that. Or you have set the
> corresponding option in apt.conf.
>
> J.

Thanks for the pointer! That was the problem, although I have no idea
where the settings came from as I don't have to use proxies.

These are the settings:

    HTTP_PROXY='http://localhost:4001 '
    http_proxy='http://localhost:4001 '

Does that look familiar to anybody?

Many thanks, "J.", it works much better now!

Dennis