How can I set socks5 proxy on apt ?

taiwbi · 10-10-2022, 05:48 AM

Internet in my region is so restricted and many websites even some apt repositories are blocked.
I have a shadowsocks server and I use

Code:

ss-local

to create a local socks5 proxy. I use foxyproxy in my browser to connect to local socks5 proxy and access the internet.
But how can I configure apt to use this local socks5 proxy? It's about one month that I can't even run a simple

Code:

apt update

.

I'm using Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS.

evo2 · 10-10-2022, 07:29 PM

From the apt-transport-http man page, it seems you'd can add something like

Code:

Acquire::http::proxy "socks5h://127.0.0.1:9050";

to a file under /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/

Add and/or replace with https as needed.

Evo2.

taiwbi · 10-11-2022, 01:09 AM

Yes thank you. That was it. Thank you so much.
I didn't know even there's a man page for apt-transport-http