Re: wget using a proxy

From: Richard Cohen <richard.a.t.vmlinuz.org>
Date: Tue Jul 24 2001 - 06:24:32 EDT

On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Oliver Wardell wrote:

> i can't use ipkg wo update packages because i have to go through a web
> proxy. I have added the line http_proxy = http://www-cache.soton.ac.uk:3128/
> to the /etc/wget file but it still won't connect... What am I doing wrong?

Try just setting that as an environment variable:

http_proxy="http://www-cache.soton.ac.uk:3128/"
export http_proxy
ipkg install fish

Should work...

Cheers
Richard
Received on Tue Jul 24 03:17:46 2001

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