In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > Oh, and a final question that isn't so rhetorical. Is it possible > to use apt from behind a corporate firewall that does *not* seem to do IP > forwarding or masquerading? > I don't know much about firewalls, but I work at a big company where > I can pretty much guarantee I have no influence over its configuration. Can > apt be told about a proxy in the way that, say, lynx can?
set the http_proxy environment variable. See 'man sources.list' for details. -Mitch
