bobpeers -> blog » apt-get http://blog.bobpeers.com Better late than never Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:19:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 apt-get Through A Proxy Server http://blog.bobpeers.com/2008/05/19/apt-get-through-a-proxy-server/ http://blog.bobpeers.com/2008/05/19/apt-get-through-a-proxy-server/#comments Mon, 19 May 2008 08:54:14 +0000 Bob Peers http://blog.bobpeers.com/2008/05/19/apt-get-through-a-proxy-server/ I previously mentioned how I couldn’t get Mepis to update through a proxy server with authentication.

Well I tried this suggestion which works fine for both apt-get and synaptic package manager. Just add this entry to your /etc/apt/apt.conf file:

ACQUIRE {
http::proxy "http://DOMAIN\username:password@IP:port/"
}
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