Byan, Thanks for your answer despite my bad english! El Mi�rcoles 27 Agosto 2003 02:32, Bryan Phinney escribi�: > On Tuesday 26 August 2003 03:13 pm, Sergio Javier Belkin wrote: > > Hello, I work for a school in which we are using GNU/Linux in desktop for > > the students. Incredibly the servant proxy is still Windows since the > > school seemed to have it well thus. Now the question is: If I want to > > make use of Internet I put the machine Windows like gateway. Then I go to > > the configuration of the navigator and put the direction of proxy. The > > subject is: How do I do when in order to PC with linux uses proxy windows > > (it's the same computher that gateway) in order to use wget in a console > > either apt-get if use Knoppix or urpmi with Mandrake. I explain myself? > > And again I clarify, that it is an aberration to use Windows as proxy, > > but I have not decided it Do ... I explain myself? Thank you very much... > > This may not be as understandable to you as your English is to me, but here > goes: Mandrake Control Center has a network configuration panel that > includes DrakProxy that allows you to set proxies for http and ftp. I am > pretty sure that setting such a proxy should work for urpmi and grpmi which > is the graphical install program for Mandrake. Traffic for those two > should be either ftp or http and those should match up with the proxies set > in Drakproxy wizard. It may work as well for wget since that is an http > transfer agent and it should use whatever proxy is set in the configuration > files since it simply goes out on port 80. > > I am not as familiar with Knoppix, although I have done some work with it, > but the theory is the same, provided Knoppix offers some method of setting > a global type of proxy. If it does not, then there is a file in /etc/apt > called apt.conf that is the configuration file for apt-get. If you add a > line such as: Acquire::http::Proxy "http://proxy.example.you:8080/";; you > should be able to specify the proxy for apt-get to use when downloading > packages. I would try this out and if you have problems, do a man apt-get > and you should be able to get the proper settings from the man page for > that application.
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