Need some assisstance with APT-PROXY please

[Matthew Kuiken]

Gabriel M Dragffy wrote:
> OH MY GOD YOU'RE A F***ING GENIUS!!!!!!!!
> After spending two tedious days reading the mans for apt-cacher and 
> apt-proxy, and doing everything I could think of, you have solved the 
> problem and all I needed to do was remove 6 characters from apt.conf.
>
> HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT??? IS DOESN'T SAY ANYWHERE. 
> MOREOVER WHY WAS IT CHANGED??
> I am really a little put out by that.
>
>
> For anyone else, the line Acquire::http::Proxy "false"; in apt.conf  
> needs to be changed to
> Acquire::Proxy "false";
>
> Ben Darby you are a saviour. I have to ask you, how do you know that 
> this needed to be changed?

The line needed to be changed because on most setups when the computer 
is not using apt-proxy it was causing the computer to not be able to get 
to the internet repositories properly.  There were many posts just about 
a month ago with *many* people having trouble getting updates because of 
the Acquire::http::Proxy line.

If there is an apt-proxy howto on the wiki, this should probably be 
added there.  (I don't use it myself, I just remember the issue.)

-Matt