[TriLUG] /etc/enviornment and proxy servers

[Owen Berry]

I'm not a Debian user, but according to
http://panuganty.tripod.com/debiantips/packaging.htm:

 How do I set up apt-get to use a proxy to connect?

 Enter these lines in your .profile or .bash_profile,
 export http_proxy=http://proxy_host:port/
 export ftp_proxy=$http_proxy

 (The trailing slash is very important!)

Also, unless you just mispelled it in your email, "enviornment" should
be "environment".

-- Owen

On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 09:58:21AM -0400, Greg Brown 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