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Post subject: How do I configure apt to use a proxy?
 Posted: May 15, 2008 - 09:34 AM
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Hello everybody,
I connect to the internet from my office LAN via a proxy server; so far I've been unable to use apt to download/inst all programs because apparently it thinks I have a direct connection to the internet.
There must be a configuration file I can adjust; what's the name of the file and how do I modify it?
(Using the 'export' command on the command line - as suggested in another thread - doesn't work for me).
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Post subject: How do I configure apt to use a proxy?
Posted: May 15, 2008 - 09:44 AM
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simply append this line to your /etc/apt/apt.conf:
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://YourProxyAddress:YourProxyPort/";
or
Acquire::ftp::Proxy "http://YourProxyAddress:YourProxyPort/";
and then apt-get update works fine. |
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Posted: May 15, 2008 - 10:23 AM
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Thanks rh.
It's all good now. |
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Posted: May 21, 2008 - 02:29 AM
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a more generic method is to use the http_proxy env variable:
export http_proxy=http://<username>:<password>@<server>:<port>
other cli apps will reference this also (wget for example) |
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Posted: Sep 05, 2008 - 03:31 PM
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| or to save it write: export http_proxy=http://<username>:<password>@<server>:<port> into /etc/bash.bashrc |
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