On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 05:02:25PM -0800, Hagen Finley wrote: > I selected the apt option and configured apt to use > ftp://dtp.debian.org/debian but nothing was downloaded. Following that > disappointing moment, I quit the package phase and logged in as root. I then
Downloading the lists of packages and the packages themselves are seperate steps in the installation - you need to select the update and install options to do these things. > option of configuring the http:// or ftp:// apt options for a proxy, that > the download is failing for because the proxy option is not configured. There is an option in /etc/apt/apt.conf or you can say "export http_proxy=http://proxy.host:port/"; before running dselect to configure it at runtime. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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