apt-get

[Michael Vogt]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 04:33:53PM -0500, Bob Carlucci wrote:
> How do i edit the config file so that i could use apt-get thru a proxy server?

You can set the http_proxy enviroment variable to do this:

$ export http_proxy=http://proxy.my-isp.com:3128/
$ sudo apt-get update

Alternativly you can edit /etc/apt/apt.conf and add lines like this:

Acquire
{
  // HTTP method configuration
  http 
  {
    Proxy "http://127.0.0.1:3128";
    Proxy::http.us.debian.org "DIRECT";  // Specific per-host setting
    Timeout "120";
    Pipeline-Depth "5";
    
    // Cache Control. Note these do not work with Squid 2.0.2
    No-Cache "false";
    Max-Age "86400";     // 1 Day age on index files
    No-Store "false";    // Prevent the cache from storing archives    
  };
}

(for a complete reference of the apt configuration see:
 /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz)

bye,
 Michael

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