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hi all,
i have configured my 10.2 distro to connect to the internet through a proxy on the lan (XP, spoon proxy) It works great however, I used konkeror to specify proxy settings and I dont seem to have any connectivity on the command line which is a bit of a problem since I'm trying to test slapt-get. is there a config file I can edit or something? I know it's a stupid newbie question but thats what us stupid newbies do: ask dumb questions
"I dont seem to have any connectivity on the command line"
what do you mean? try ping www.google.com does it respont?
if you cannot slapt-get then you should see the settings of slapt-get for proxy.
I tried "export http_proxy=http://192.168.0.1:8080"
where 192.168.0.1 is my proxy address and 8080 the http service port.
I also tried "export http_proxy=192.168.0.1:8080"
nothing. heres an example of what i get:
webmail.co.za: Temporary failure in name resolution
webmail.co.za: Host name lookup failure
do i have to restart a particular service? Like I say I'm connected right now (Duh) so it's just a matter of getting the command line to recognize the proxy settings.
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