Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote: > > On May 22, Peter Firmstone scratched in indelible ink : > > > I'm relatively new to debian and I'm having a little confusion setting > > up my /etc/apt/sources.list file for use behind a squid proxy-firewall. > > > > deb http://squid.cqu.edu.au:3128/www.au.debian.org/debian stable main > > contrib non-US > > > exporting the http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment variables will fix > this. (man sources.list) > > bash/sh/ksh > export http_proxy='squid.cqu.edu.au:3128' > > or csh: > setenv http_proxy='squid.cqu.edu.au:3128' > > /Jp. > -- > Jean-Paul Blaquiere || Student of Computational > [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Thaumaturgy > We have what is termed a one way gateway on our house. > Computers are allowed to enter, but they may not leave. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey thanks, That did the trick, I didn't realize it needed to be specified on the command line (I thought it went in the URL section of the sources.list Doh!). Cheers, Peter Firmstone.
