Re: dpkg: Update failures

2001-06-07 Thread Yang Shouxun
Anthony Fok wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:49:57AM +0800, Yang Shouxun wrote: Dear Debian users, Because I'm behind a Wingate, I don't have direct access to http or ftp. Someone suggests set http_proxy and ftp_proxy in /etc/environment, but that seems to be not working. Actually, not

Re: dpkg: Update failures

2001-04-25 Thread Yang Shouxun
Anthony Fok wrote: Actually, not to /etc/environment, but to /etc/apt/apt.conf. For example, I used to use this: Acquire::http::proxy http://nocache.srv.ualberta.ca:8080/;; Please let me know if that solves your problem. Thanks for the info. More information can be found in apt.conf

Re: dpkg: Update failures

2001-04-23 Thread Nate Amsden
Yang Shouxun wrote: I found Debian's package management strategy often frustrated me. i haven't. Because I'm behind a Wingate, I don't have direct access to http or ftp. that can be a problem. im not sure what kind of proxy wingate is. Someone suggests set http_proxy and ftp_proxy in

Re: dpkg: Update failures

2001-04-23 Thread Peter Schüller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 any particular reason you need perl 5.6 and xfree86 4? perl 5.6 is not part of debian stable(for good reason if you've read the archives it is a source of problems from time to time in unstable). same for xfree86 4, it is not stable yet so it is

Re: dpkg: Update failures

2001-04-23 Thread Anthony Fok
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:49:57AM +0800, Yang Shouxun wrote: Dear Debian users, Because I'm behind a Wingate, I don't have direct access to http or ftp. Someone suggests set http_proxy and ftp_proxy in /etc/environment, but that seems to be not working. Actually, not to /etc/environment,

Re: dpkg: Update failures

2001-04-23 Thread Colin Watson
Peter =?iso-8859-1?q?Sch=FCller?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nate Amsden wrote: I hate to say it but the problems your having were caused by you wanting to use knowingly unstable program versions. you probably should of asked the list before attempting what you did as some people may of been

Re: dpkg: Update failures

2001-04-23 Thread Colin Watson
Yang Shouxun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because I'm behind a Wingate, I don't have direct access to http or ftp. Someone suggests set http_proxy and ftp_proxy in /etc/environment, but that seems to be not working. In a word, I cannot find any hostname in a terminal, and apt-get won't work for me.

dpkg: Update failures

2001-04-22 Thread Yang Shouxun
Dear Debian users, I found Debian's package management strategy often frustrated me. Because I'm behind a Wingate, I don't have direct access to http or ftp. Someone suggests set http_proxy and ftp_proxy in /etc/environment, but that seems to be not working. In a word, I cannot find any