On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, ^chewie wrote: > 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".
Or you can get the APT from potota (slink version at http://www.debian.org/~jgg) and place the setting in the configuration file (man apt.conf). Also note that alot of other programs use the http_proxy setting, so making it global is not such a bad idea Jason
