On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 15:53 -0500, David Meyer wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am behind a firewall here and want to run apt-get to grab some
> packages. I know that when I installed debian it allowed me to input
> my http://user:password@proxy:port information. I didn't do that like
> an idiot, and not I don't know how I can input that information.
>
> Can someone tell me where to enter that?
>
Add the following to /etc/apt/apt.conf:
acquire::http::Proxy "http://YOUR_PROXY:8080/";
Further help should be in /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf
HTH,
The Logan
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