On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Herbert Xu wrote: > So please come up with an alternative way of setting proxies, perhaps > through a new configuration file or an existing one. You mean like using the configuration file in /etc/apt/apt.conf that has a whole complex wack of settings for proxies that is above and beyond what you can set in the environment variables?! Look in /usr/doc/apt/samples/apt.conf.gz for some samples Jason