Debian Question

ally_uk

Ok here it goes

I am in the process of building a firewall for our SysAdmin dude being quite new to this linux lark i am having some difficulty

I am using Debian Sarge Net install

I need to download the packages using Aptitude but i'm struggling to get anywhere because of the proxy not being setup

sysadmin dude provided me the command

export http-proxy="http://proxy:8080"

So i typed this in and no joy the NIC is working and the switch is working

Is the command wrong I tried setting up the proxy using apt to no avail

Also he mentioned something about the enviromental values changing and that I need to add the Proxy details by editing etc

how the hell do i do this ??:

Thank you for you help

ally_uk

Any Linux gurus in here realy do need some help!

NinjaBoy

I haven't played much with Linux, but i found this, hopefully it'll help you :

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Downloading Debian Packages through a Proxy
Anothing example of using the apt configuration files is to instruct apt-get to download packages via a proxy server.

Simply place the following into a file such as /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/proxy:

Acquire::http::Proxy "http://proxy:8080";

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See here for full article: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/177

-ken

ally_uk

Unfortuantley this doesn't help me

Because I currently have no FTP or HTTP useage

Sarge has no editors installed so I cannot add the proxy settings using a editor

I remember configuring the proxy through the command line before also i somehow configuring the proxy using apt-install before but for some reason it isn't giving me the option to.

I hate Linux lol there has to be a solution!

NinjaBoy

Sorry the above didn't help. I was wondering why you don't just install a desktop environment (GUI) like KDE or Gnome? And then configure what you need to.

See here: http://www.debiantutorials.org/content/view/6/57/

-ken

p.s. I don't like Linux that much either

RussS

Basically - if you don't have ftp or http you are not gonna get your downloads

Sounds like you have a tightly locked down network.

Silver Bullet

Have you considered using IPCOP or Smoothwall?

IPCOP is a full featured linux firewall with a lot of extras such as IDS(Snort), Proxy Server and there are several addons to make it function as a web content filter, spam & virus filter..etc. It's not difficult to manage either......all done through a web interface.

I have never used smoothwall but it looks like a good firewall solution as well.

ally_uk

Unfortunately the Sysadmin is a old skool Unix user he prefers no GUI and a Debian based system. I managed to resolve the problem by starting over although i had some fun configuring the packages via aptitude I nearly deleted the whole Kernal ahwell learning experience.

ally_uk

Sucess

I managed to get aptitude working

Installed Vim

I then navigated to /etc and viewed and edited profile using vim

I then added

export http_proxy= "http://proxy=8080"

Exited vim

Then ran source etc/profile

So now everytime I enter the Debian system my proxy settings are configured

Oh windows is so much easier but why is Linux so much more fun lol