FC3, up2date, yum, apt, authenticating proxy

[Serge de Souza]

Lets Go Canes wrote:
> Hi all.
>>Try using:
>>
>>export http_proxy=http://username:password@fqdn.com:nnnn
> 
> 
> This works for yum.  It does not work for up2date or apt.  But for my
> purposes yum is good enough!  Thanks muchly!

If you set your proxy as shown above in your /etc/apt/apt.conf at the 
location reserved for this it should work.

Serge