Re: [LUG] Using apt through a proxy?

[Neil Stone <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Grant Sewell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to set up 'my' laptop to work through a proxy... basically, I've seen that I need 
> to set an environment variable ("http_proxy") containing the proxy details in the 
> format of:
> http://user:password@proxy:port
> Now, I know all of the above details, and have entered them appropriately:
> # http_proxy="http://user.name:mypassword@collegesproxy:8080";
> # export http_proxy
> # apt-get update
>
> The output of the above shows that it is indeed trying to connect through the proxy, 
> but I keep getting errors back from the proxy itself regarding authentication.  I'm 
> thinking it might have something to do with the fact that it's a Windows ISA proxy 
> (no... I have no control over this and I am not likely to get them to change their 
> proxy system to a good one) as I know for certain that the username, password, proxy 
> address/name and port are spot-on.
>
> So, to cut a long story short: has anyone else run into problems using apt and a 
> Windows ISA proxy... and got it sorted?
>
> Cheers.
> Grant.
>
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Why not set this as a global variable ??

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