How can I get apt to use a proxy?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 10:35:24AM -0500, Martin Maney wrote:

> I've been playing, mostly quite happily, with the preview release, and
> as I'm looking to do some scratch installs on a few machines just to
> see how well it handles them, I'd like to be able to have the 2nd stage
> fetch the tens of MB of updates/additions through the local squid
> proxy - it's faster and it saves everyone's bandwidth.  However, I
> cannot find any way to get Ubuntu to set that up - I just tried, to no
> avail, the "expert" install, which needed a lot more keystrokes but,
> nope, it just blows straight out to the internet without a pause for
> instruction.  Earlier I had tried setting up apt.conf, but that appeard
> to get wiped out somewhere along the way.
> 
> Am I overlooking something or is this just missing?

You might try passing http_proxy=http://yourproxy:3128 from the boot prompt
(untested).

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 - mdz