[mdlug] ssh or telnet in kubuntu or apt-get thru proxy?

[Ron Blanchett]

forgot one thing if you have an authenticating proxy you need to do this

export http_proxy="http://username:password@host:port/"


On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Ron Blanchett <muteid10t at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> to get apt- to work through a proxy just do the following from a command
> prompt
>
> export http_proxy="http://ip or name of proxy:port/"
>
> apt should now work.
>
> you can add this to your .bashrc file to have it load this at login.
>
> -Ron
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:32 AM, <mdlug at wowway.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello, I tried configuring xinetd to allow telnet on ubuntu and it's
>> saying I
>> don't have in.telnetd which I can't find anywhere on the system.   Most of
>> the
>> advice I find on the net for telnet says to use inetd, which I understand
>> is
>> obsolete.
>>
>> Then I tried to get openssh to work.   It got hung up on not being able to
>> find libcrypto.
>>
>> Now, I'm behind a proxy, so apt-get is not working.   I know there's
>> supposed
>> to be a way to configure apt-get to go through a proxy, but I tried that
>> too,
>> and it's not working either.
>>
>> I appreciate any ideas.    Thanks, Dean
>>
>>
>>
>>
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