On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In my /etc/apt/apt.conf I have: > > Acquire::http::Proxy "http://127.0.0.1:3128";; > Acquire::http::No-Cache "true"; > Acquire::ftp::Proxy "http://127.0.0.1:3128";; > > When apt tries to use ftp I get something like this > > Err ftp://ftp.uni-marburg.de potato/kde libqt1g 1:1.44-6.5 > Protocol corruption
For some reason the man page does not mention this, but you cannot set an http proxy in the configuration file, you must set it using the environment variable ftp_proxy. Jason
