From: Jon Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "I'm reading a Debian Installation & Guide to use book and it states that I can put in a variable to let apt know that you have a firewall/proxy between you and the outside world.
"The variable (# export http_proxy=http://gateway:1234/) is to be typed into the command line...but is there a file where I can put that into so I don't have to type it whenever I want to apt-get something?" Well, there are a couple places. If you'd like the http_proxy environment variable to apply to your execution of Apt alone, then you can rename apt-get to apt-get.real and write a wrapper script called "apt-get". The script would look something like this: #!/bin/sh ###################################################################### ## Apt-get wrapper script: to set environment variables before ## executing apt-get. ## Last update: xxxx/xx/xx # Set proxy env. var. HTTP_PROXY="http://my.proxy:<port>" ; export HTTP_PROXY # Call apt-get.real and pass any parameters /usr/bin/apt-get.real $@ ## End script If you want the environment variable to apply to your login shell, and therefore all programs, put the HTTP_PROXY line in your .bash_profile. Case is important, so if the variable is supposed to be "http_proxy", use that. Later! ^chewie +----------------------------------------------------+ | Chad Walstrom mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | ICQ: 9985127 http://wookimus.net/~chewie | +----------------------------------------------------+ Need a new truck? Check out my '97 Explorer 2-door Sport at http://wookimus.net/~chewie/truck.html
