Setting up proxy on CLI

matthewhardwick · 07-30-2006, 05:40 PM

New to Ubuntu, but here is the story,

I have installed Ubuntu Server, with LAMP... Want to install some more packages from the repository, but am behind a proxy and the only way to get to the internet is to go through that proxy server... SOOOO > can anyone tell me how to setup apt-get to use the proxy server on my network.

Thanks in advance.

Matt,

gilead · 07-30-2006, 06:15 PM

Does apt-get have a .conf file in /etc that you can set this in? For example, I use slackpkg sometimes (Slackware) and in /etc/slackpkg/slackpkg.conf is a WGETFLAGS variable for passing options to wget:

Code:

WGETFLAGS="--passive-ftp --proxy-user=username --proxy-password=somepass"

You can also set environment variables that apps can check. For example:

Code:

export http_proxy=http://proxy.somedomain.com:3128
export ftp_proxy=http://proxy.somedomain.com:3128

If apt-get uses wget but doesn't provide access to wget flags or use environment variables you can modify /etc/wgetrc to add proxy variables. You can add entries there for http_proxy and ftp_proxy.

It's not Ubuntu specific, but I hope that helps...

matthewhardwick · 08-03-2006, 08:05 AM

OK thanks, I will give it a go