yum: I'm missing something basic

[Douglas Frank]

That did it!  Thank you!

Dale Sykora wrote:
>> First try with yum: 'yum list' gives complaint that the [base] url 
>> returns "connection refused".  That's funny, if I paste the generated 
>> url into firefox I can get there every time.  What gives?
>> 
> http_proxy="http://proxy_server.your_company.com:8080/"
> export http_proxy

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