Need some assisstance with APT-PROXY please

[Gabriel M Dragffy]

Since I have just walked through the fires of hell with apt-cacher and
apt-proxy, I might try and make a wiki entry, would let me feel a little
bit better sharing this golden information with others.

On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 09:17 -0700, Matthew Kuiken wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
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