apt-get update error

[Erik Christiansen]

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 06:20:59AM +0100, jclose wrote:
> 
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy-updates/Release.gpg:
> Could not connect to archive.ubuntu.com:80 (85.133.25.7). - connect
> (111 Connection refused) [IP: 85.133.25.7 80]

If you're being bitten by the same cause that I suffered, apt-get http
operations should work in the current shell, after:

export http_proxy=http://proxy:nnnn

where proxy:nnnn is hostname and http port number of your http proxy.

(I must admit to not having stopped to find the appropriate conf
filename and syntax to make this permanent.)

Erik