Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Slackware's pacman through HTTP Proxy

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:

minsler said...

If proxy server need authentication

mayankjohri said...

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