Fink and proxy setup

[deesto]

Hello,

I've installed Fink and I'm trying to get it working through an HTTP proxy.

I found these instructions:
http://finkproject.org/faq/usage-fink.php

But trying to get and set up the cvs-proxy package according to that failed to download the binary package (it also failed to connect using the method given in the local installation files, which tell you to download the .info and .patch files to the finkinfo directory).

After I manually downloaded the Debian binary to the /sw/fink/debs/ directory and re-ran fink configure to instruct it to use that directory for packages, it seemed to work.

However, after all that, and running fink selfupdate-cvs, it still stalled:

Downloading the indexes of available packages in the binary distribution.
/sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait update
Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4/release/main Packages                           
  Could not connect to bindist.finkmirrors.net:80 (213.84.134.230). - connect (60 Operation timed out)

Help?!

[deesto]

Hi, any ideas? I'm still stuck. Thanks.

[Tommo]

try adding the following to the /etc/profile file and rebooting, this works with Fedora.

export http_proxy="<address of your proxyort number>"

[deesto]

Thanks. I've actually got that set in my ~/.profile (both http_proxy and HTTP_PROXY).