Re: [LUG] Using apt through a proxy?

[Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Grant Sewell wrote:
> Thanks!  I've not read that howto yet, but from the title... I can
> already browse the web by setting the proxy information in the
> browser itself.  It works fine, it's just using apt (and other
> command-line based tools).
In that case the http_proxy variable will sort most applications.

export http_proxy=http://proxy.example.com:3128


Apt will usually store proxy settings in /etc/apt/apt.conf, it stores 
those used during installation in there by default.
Not sure of hand the support ways to alter apt.conf (apt-config isn't 
friendly enough), but vi works ;)
cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://proxy.example.com:3128";;

The document was for those cases where only IEs authentication method is 
permitted.
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