How to set proxy for synaptic for FC3?

[James Wilkinson]

Jiantao Shi wrote:
> I am using synaptic in FC3 for system updating.These days a proxy server was
> set in our company,so i have to configure the proxy for my synaptic.I have
> the following information,
> 
> server:192.168.204.1
> port：8080
> domain：company
> name：name
> password：abc

Most Linux applications that might need to use a proxy will respect the
http_proxy environment variable.

What happens if you run (from the command line):
export http_proxy='http://name:abc@192.168.204.1:8080'
synaptic

You may be able to set this in /etc/apt.conf. I run x86_64, which apt
doesn't understand, so I can't test this.

Similarly, I can't tell whether you'd have to be root to try the above.

Hope this helps,

James.

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