[plug] problem with apt-get

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 3:44 PM, David Buddrige <dbuddrige at bigpond.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 15:36 +0800, Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:
>> Name or service not known -- sounds like a DNS or possible gateway
>> issue if your DNS server is outside of your network scope.
>>
>
> Thanks for your reply.  The proxy I am using does appear to be working -
> it just fails the configuration step when setting up the packages.
>
>
> For example, here is what happens if I try to install something else (in
> this case the vice emulator program):

Then you need a wgetrc and tell it about your proxy -- seems like apt
knows about it, but the config script for msttcorefonts uses wget (I
think) which has no idea about your proxy and is failing.


Tomasz