Re: access proxy for apt-get, ISP - howto?

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:37:57AM -0800, john_re <john_re@fastmail.us> was heard to say:
> 1) Using in 03metroproxy the line:
> http::Proxy "http://wap.metropcs.net:3128/";;

  http::Proxy is in the Acquire group, so this should work:

    Acquire::http::Proxy "http://wap.metropcs.net:3128/";;

  or equivalently

    Acquire {
      http::Proxy "http://wap.metropcs.net:3128/";;
    }

  You can also set the "http_proxy" environment variable:

    $ export http_proxy="http://wap.metropcs.net:3128/";
    $ apt-get update

  Daniel