[plug] problem with apt-get

[David Buddrige]

On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 15:54 +0800, Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 


Thanks heaps Tomaz - that worked perfectly.  8-)

I edited my /etc/wgetrc file and added the lines 

http_proxy = http://[my-proxy-name]:[my-proxy-port]/
ftp_proxy = http://[my-proxy-name]:[my-proxy-port]/

and then re-ran apt-get install and it all worked without a hitch. 8-)


> Tomasz
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