On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 02:35:50PM -0700, jekillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Greetings: > I am impatient and am having a problem with my installation of > etch. I purchased a commercially available Debian cd package > and installed the system without a problem. But I am tying to > use the Synaptic package manager and am having a problem > with it connecting to the Debian site via a proxy. I have set the > preferences in the package manager to use a proxy. The proxy > is a Mac OSX machine running Apache. I am unclear as to how > the package manager would use that. I have the web browsers, > Epiphany and IceWeasel, using the proxy set up and they do > just fine with it. (All though, if I follow a link in the proxy home > page with Epiphany, it loops back to the document root index > and I have to use reload to get it out to the target site in the > link.)
I don't know how Synaptic works exactly, but you should be able to change the proxy settings globally by editing /etc/apt/apt.conf and adding the following line: Acquire::http::Proxy "http://your.proxy.here:port/";; See "man apt.conf" for more information on the apt.conf configuration file. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
