Downloading packages

[messmate]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:47:24 +0100
"Benjamin Edwards" <bedwards at rnli.org.uk> wrote:

>If I just uncomented the line and apt-get update/upgrade would it
>change/be lickly to screw up mutch.  What is I did dist-upgrade. 
>Asking this as I am trying to work out the ramifications of using
>universe.
>
>Ben
>
>>>> Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at canonical.com> 09/24/04 11:57am >>>
>
>Just enable the "universe" archive (of unsupported Debian packages) in
>/etc/apt/sources.list (they are commented out and described there),
>run "sudo apt-get update" and mc will be waiting for you to install it
>:-)
>
>Martin
>
Thanks Benjamin,
but connections to the internet pass trough a proxy !!!
So there must be a configuration about apt-get ( i think) getting 
trough the proxy.
As i did with the browsers.
Anyone know how ??
mess-mate