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at my school, in my computer class (actually it's a Cisco class but that's beside the point) we're mucking around with ubuntu linux.....
the problem we have is that the school network uses an ISA server and i read somewhere that apt-get isn't able to understand some protocol or something to do with the ISA server, and hence apt-get won't work for me
(when i apt-get update, all the repositories say "407 Proxy Authentication Required ( The ISA Server requires authorization to fulfill the request. Access to the Web Proxy service is denied. )" )
but anyway, that problem is not what the post is about...
I want to know if there is an alternative to apt-get for ubuntu so that i can update, install, remove, etc applications on the computer......
Apt-get basically keeps a record of dependencies and automatically downloads and installs using dpkg, if you had apt-get working you would actually see a message when dpkg is working. So yeah, trying to keep an updated system with only manually downloading and installing packages would be quite a pain. I hadn't heard of this problem before so I'm not sure if there's a way to get it working with the ISA. If there isn't it might be worth talking to your teacher about using some other distro, I would imagine that a lot of what you'd be doing can be done with a different linux system but it depends on how they're teaching you I imagine.
Apt-get basically keeps a record of dependencies and automatically downloads and installs using dpkg, if you had apt-get working you would actually see a message when dpkg is working. So yeah, trying to keep an updated system with only manually downloading and installing packages would be quite a pain. I hadn't heard of this problem before so I'm not sure if there's a way to get it working with the ISA. If there isn't it might be worth talking to your teacher about using some other distro, I would imagine that a lot of what you'd be doing can be done with a different linux system but it depends on how they're teaching you I imagine.
my teacher isn't teaching me about linux.....it's actually more the other way round
but i'll try another distro......what would you recommend?
Any debian based distribution will probably have the same problem that ubuntu had with apt-get. You can try searching through Distro Watch to find what distro will work for you
doesn't apt-get install over ftp? same as most package managers?
I use pacman on arch and you can choose to use wget (http) for it, you can then specify whatever proxy options you want for the system. But if you need auth details to get around the proxy, it isn't going to matter what protocol the package manager uses...
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