Hello everyone,

I didn't add repositories while installing OpenSuse 10.3; now I need to. I've tried to do it through Yast (Yast-->Software Repositories) but I keep getting an error message, e.g.

Unable to create repository from url http:www.packman.unixheads.com
Curl error for http:www.packman.unixheads.com
error message: couldn't resolve host 'packman.unixheads.com'

Apparently Yast (and zypper too, I've found) rely on curl. I connect to the internet on my office LAN via a proxy - one that requires a username/password combination.

I can download stuff from the internet using curl by invoking it from the command line and passing certain parameters (-U and -X I think, not quite sure now).

So, the question is, how do I configure curl to ALWAYS use our proxy to access the internet and supply the username/password combo? (I believe if I configure curl this way, I won't have any issues with using either Yast or zypper to add repositories).

Thanks.

Hi

You can set the environment variable http_proxy and curl will use the proxy.

For example:

export http_proxy=http://proxyserver.example.org:8123/

I don't know much about Suse, so I don't know the proper place to put it, but I think adding it to /etc/profile will do.

Edit:
For username and password:
export http_proxy=http://username:password@proxyserver.example.org:8123/

Hi Guttorm,

I created a config file for curl and put the http_export statement as you suggested. I named the file .curlrc and saved it in /etc/skel (I discovered that that's where you keep such files in OpenSuse) yet there's still no change - I can't automatically use the proxy with curl.

Thanks for the advice, I appreciate it.