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APT behind a proxy

Heya, I'm planning to put debian on ma machine in the near future (I'm sick of suse) and I was wondering whether apt-get works behind a proxy server??? or any work arounds.

Plus while I'm here does the same work for emerge on gentoo if anyone knows

Yes and Yes.
Gentoo

Code:

[ken:ken](06:48 PM)$ cat /etc/make.conf | grep proxy 

# If you need to set a proxy for wget or lukemftp, add the appropriate "export

# ftp_proxy=<proxy>" and "export http_proxy=<proxy>" lines to /etc/profile if

# all users on your system should use them.

Debian man apt.conf

Code:

 http  HTTP URIs; http::Proxy is the default http proxy to use.  It  is

              in the standard form of http://[[user][:pass]@]host[:port]/. Per

              host  proxies  can  also  be  specified  by  using  the  form

              http::Proxy::<host>  with  the special keyword DIRECT meaning to

              use no proxies. The http_proxy environment variable  will  over-

              ride all settings.

HTH

more words, some debian update site support both http protocal and ftp protocal, make sure you get the right one.

apt-config -o http::Proxy=<proxy information> shell
will set the apt proxy for http, use ftp::Proxy for ftp.

<proxy information> as in the man pages or as described in the second post.