On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Misanthrope wrote: > Hello, I have just installed Linux for the first time and am having a few > slight difficulties...At present I am running the stable distribution, or > slink, and I can't seem to get dselect's asp package selection method working > with my home network. My machine is a an i586 166 connected via RJ-45 to a > hub (inactive or "stupid") and then to my home's proxy server, a 486DX4 100 > running Windows 95 (fully updated) which is in turn running WinProxy version > 2.1R2h (I want to set up a linux server but my parents won't let me until I > can provide a valid reason; a rather difficult task as I can't even manage to > get my machine to install packages...). I can FTP out manually by FTPing to > my proxyserver, which then provides me with a prompt for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Munin/~/ftp 10.10.10.2 > 10.10.10.2 ready: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > afterwhich it connects and acts normally...My sole question is how may I get > dselect to function with this? Here are a few things which may, in some way > help: > > HTTP Port: 10.10.10.2:80 > FTP Port: 10.10.10.2:21 > Socks5 Port: 1080
do export http_proxy="http://10.10.10.2:80/"; Then edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change all your URIs to http Alternativly, you can setup APT to speak to that ftp proxy, but that is probably lots more trouble than it is worth. Jason
