On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > Err http://www.au.debian.org stable/main stow 1.3.2-11 > 407 Proxy authorization required > Failed to fetch > http://www.au.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/a > dmin/stow_1.3.2-11.deb > 407 Proxy authorization required > E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe try with --fix-missing? > > > The problem is due to the fact that my http proxy sometimes asks for > authorization. Under netscape it pops up a dialog box asking for my > name and a password. I am presuming this capability hasn't been built > into apt. Any chance that it will be soon?
You need to specify authorization credentials in advance, export http_proxy="http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Read the sources.list man page for information about this. Jason
