[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Tan) writes: > I just successfully installed slink 2.1 on a sparc machine. When I attempted > to use "dselect" to install some other packages off the net, I ran into the > following problem. > > Get http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages > Get http://http.non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Packages > Error http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages > Couldn't lookup host http.us.debian.org > Error http://http.non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Packages > Couldn't lookup host http.non-us.debian.org
> I believe the errors in the above has to do with the fact that the machine > is behind a firewall. Um, no, the errors are because it can't resolve the host names. You have to have a working DNS configuration (man resolv.conf). Alternatively, try IP numbers but I'm not sure if that will work or not. > How do set the proxy server information in the > system. What program or tool is available for this? Well, this depends on your backend. I deduce you are using apt. In that case, set the 'http_proxy' variable. I do: export http_proxy=http://burrito:3128/ dselect -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
