On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 07:50, Ashish Sharma wrote: > Hi, > I was told about YUM as a great substitute for apt-rpm. > I installed version no 2.0.4. After installing the RPM on my > Res Hat 9, I got the following error: > " > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - Base > retrygrab() failed for: > > http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/9/i386/headers/header.info > Executing failover method > failover: out of servers to try > Error getting file > http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/9/i386/headers/header.info > [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 407: Proxy Authentication Required > " > Clearly the proxy configuration has not been correct. > I have setup the http_proxy environment variable. And the link is > accessible using lynx web browser, which promts for a username and > passwd .I am behind a proxy which requires a password authentication. > How and where do I specify the proxy username and passwd? > Hope you guys can help me solve this. > Thanks in advance. can you set up the http_proxy env variable with http://user:pass@hostnameofproxy/ ? see if that succeeds -sv
