proxy setting in bash for using yum

soltanloo · 09-28-2009, 01:52 AM

hi, im very new to linux. my linux box in the office has an a proxy server to access the internet. i can set this on my browsers. id like to know how i give my shell (bash) the proxy server settings so i can wget,yum install perl modules, etc. on my shell terminal without problems.

i used

Code:

export http_proxy=http://<proxy-server-ip>:<port>

for example

Code:

export http_proxy=http://bsc.aut.ac.ir:8080

and also i did this for ftp.
but i doesn't work.

kbp · 09-28-2009, 02:16 AM

Hi soltanloo,

Proxy settings vary per application - 'wget' will read the 'http_proxy' environment variable but 'yum' will not, you will need to set it in /etc/yum.conf

cheers

soltanloo · 09-29-2009, 01:59 AM

thank u
but how can i edit etc/yum.conf ?
my yum.conf contains :

Code:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
installonly_limit=3

#  This is the default, if you make this bigger yum won't see if the metadata
# is newer on the remote and so you'll "gain" the bandwidth of not having to
# download the new metadata and "pay" for it by yum not having correct
# information.
#  It is esp. important, to have correct metadata, for distributions like
# Fedora which don't keep old packages around. If you don't like this checking
# interupting your command line usage, it's much better to have something
# manually check the metadata once an hour (yum-updatesd will do this).
# metadata_expire=90m

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d
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soltanloo · 09-29-2009, 02:04 AM

in fact i'm trying to install sysstat package. i juct know

Code:

yum install sysstat

. and it needs proxy setting to connect to the network.
also i tried to do it with a rpm packet. but it takes an our to download , and it's still downloading and nothing has happened.

kbp · 09-29-2009, 07:38 AM

Just add this line:

Code:

http_proxy=http://bsc.aut.ac.ir:8080

cheers

soltanloo · 09-30-2009, 02:13 AM

hi

i put this code in /etc/yum.conf and now it works.

Code:

proxy=http://xxx.xx.xx:8080
proxy_username=xxxxx
proxy_password=xxxxxx

kbp · 09-30-2009, 05:01 PM

Yeah sorry, I realised yesterday that I'd given you the wrong line, you can combine it if you like as well :

Code:

proxy=http://username:password@yourproxy.tld:8080

cheers