apt-get problem

[Michael Scottaline]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 04:22:18 -0500, Michael Scottaline
<mscottaline at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:18:36 +0100, Michael Vogt
> <michael.vogt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 06:08:46PM -0500, Michael Scottaline wrote:
> > > I just installed ubuntu 4.10 today.  Easy, fast install that found all
> > > of the laptops hardware and configured everything properly.  Bravo!!
> > > At work I access the net via our T3 line using a proxy server.  this
> > > may be the reason I don't seem to be able to access any of the apt-get
> > > repositories via gnome-terminal.  I've configured synaptic and my
> > > browsers for the proxy server and clicked on desktop configure network
> > > to add proxy servers there, but still get failures for each of the
> > > repositories apt-get tries to access.
> >
> > Is it correct that you can access the proxy with your browser and
> > with synaptic but apt-get (on the commandline fails)? If so, you may
> > want to set the "http_proxy" enviroment variable. Many commandline
> > applications use it. Typo in a terminal:
> > $ export http_proxy=http://my.proxy.isp.com:3128/
> >
> > Then:
> > $ apt-get update
> > $ apt-get dist-upgrade
> > should work.
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Like charm!!!!!!!!
Thanks so much!!
Michael

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