Adept behind a Proxy

Credit - http://www.catnip.co.uk/projects/gnu/linux/usw/

Using Adept Behind a Proxy

If your machine is behind a proxy firewall, it is still possible to use Adept to keep the system up to date and to install further software. The way I did it was to create a file:

/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/proxy

by issuing the command:

sudo kwrite /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/proxy

and to place in it the details of the proxy as follows:

Acquire {
http {
Proxy "http://username:userpassword@191.168.1.1:8080";
};
};

Obviously replace username, userpassword, the IP address 191.168.1.1 and the port number 8080 with those applicable to the proxy you wish to access.