* Ankit Srivastava (ankit.sunca at gmail.com) wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed OpenSolaris 2008.05 on my laptop which is connected to the > internet from our university's proxy server. The details of the server are > as follows: > > HTTP Proxy: hostelproxy.daiict.ac.in Port: 3128 > The proxy server requires authentication using our Student IDs and passwords > > i have configured my firefox and System -> Preferences -> Network Proxy with > the above proxy. The net is working fine and i am able to browse all the > websites. > > I wanted to install openoffice, netbeans, sunstudio etc using the following > commands > pkg install openoffice > pkg install netbeans ... given at > http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/IPS/instdevsoft.html > > When i run the above command, I get the following error:
You need to set the proxy in the cli environment: (for bash which is the default shell for the user created during installation): export http_proxy="http://hostelproxy.daiict.ac.in:3128"; Cheers, -- Glenn
