On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Ron Stordahl wrote: > I had exactly the same problem, yet I knew my network connection was > working, and I could go to another machine (MS Explorer/Win98) and get to > those http addresses just fine. I asked our network guy and he said the > problem was that our proxy server was in the way, that I should try ftp > instead of http, but it that didn't work he would remove my address from > being intercepted by the proxy server.
Do you just need to specify the proxy server address? Something like export http_proxy="http://myproxy:3128/" apt-get ... Jason