[K12OSN] Yum, Up2date, Apt on FC3

[richard ingalls]

--- Les Mikesell <les at futuresource.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 11:41, richard ingalls wrote:
> 
> > I have to use a proxy (a RH8 box in my room) using
> > squid, squidguard and dansguardian... BUT with the
> > older RH8 boxes, when I installed them, during the
> > configuration process, it would ask the gateway
> (which
> > is my proxy) and that was all that i needed to do.
> 
> > Apt & synaptic & yum simply worked without any
> special
> > configs.  What is different with FC3?
> > 
> > What must I do to make apt, yum, up2date work
> through
> > a proxy on FC3?
> 
> Programs that don't have their own setup (and some
> that do) usually
> observer the http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment
> variables.  You
> could set these in /etc/profile if you want.  Apt
> has it's
> own place in the apt.conf - I'm not sure about
> up2date.  I normally
> use yum and take advantage of the shell's ability to
> export
> variables for a single command when you set them in
> the command line.
> 
> Something like:
> http_proxy=http://my_proxy:port
> ftp_proxy=$http_proxy yum update
> should work.  I usually do it often enough that I
> can recall the
> command from history with ^r and typing part of
> 'proxy'.
> 
> -- 
>   Les Mikesell
>    les at futuresource.com
> 

thanks Les!  that worked for me on yum (haven't tried
up2date or apt yet though!).  thank you.



		
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