On May 20, Greg Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'd like to get apt-get working from within $BIGCOMPANY. As it > stands, there is a proxy. If memory serves, and google is correct, I > should be able to put the following line into /etc/enviornment and > have my apt-get be able to hop onto the Internet and grab files: > > http_proxy="http://<username>:<password>@proxy.company.com:8080/proxy/" > > However, this does not work. Does anyone have any ideas why not? > > Greg
I just saw this message; I see you got some responses but I did not see any that said you had solved it yet. I used to do the following, not in /etc/environment, but from the command line before executing any apt-get command: export http_proxy='http://<username>:<password>@proxy.company.com:8080' and it worked. I'm not sure why you have the trailing "/proxy/" at the end of your definition, it wasn't necessary for mine. Also, a trailing slash was NOT necessary. I'd also double check that you have the correct proxy machine name and port number. HTH -- Neil Roeth -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
