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August 8, 2007

Slackware’s pacman through HTTP Proxy

Filed under: Packaging — mayankjohri @ 2:16 pm

edit the /etc/pacman.conf on your slackware/frugalware machine and add or update the following.

ProxyServer = your.proxy.server	ie	proxy.domain.com
ProxyPort = your_proxy_port	ie	8080 

2 Comments »

  1. If proxy server need authentication

    Comment by minsler — February 24, 2008 @ 3:36 am | Reply

  2. Try something like this at command prompt,
    export HTTP_PROXY=user:pass@proxy.com:port
    export http_proxy=$HTTP_PROXY

    Comment by mayankjohri — February 26, 2008 @ 10:31 am | Reply


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