On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 05:27:56PM +0100, Sascha Feldhorst wrote: > Unfortunately the packet manager seems to have problems with the > proxy authentification. For example updating the packet list > fails. In the protocol the following error message could be found: > ... > E:Failed to fetch > http://www.fbreader.org/maemo/dist/bora/user/binary-armel/Packages.gz 407 > Proxy Authentification Required > ... > > I found out, that apt respects the following environment variables > * http_proxy > * https_proxy > * ftp_proxy > > I tried to handle this error by setting this variables in my /etc/profile, > e.g. > http_proxy="http://<proxy user:proxy passwd>@<proxy address>:<proxy port> > > With no sucess, even after a reboot. I think that using export http_proxy="..." in /etc/profile should work. But if it doesn't, you can edit /etc/apt/apt.conf, and add the line APT::Acquire::http::Proxy "..."; (or add it as a separate file, like /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99proxy ) Check out the man page for apt.conf on a Debian or Ubuntu system for details. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
