Yum proxy setup (was (no subject))

[Paul Gear]

Telmo Silva wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> how can set up Fedora to use a proxy with yum? I am behind a proxy and  
> can't update my system throught yum without configuring the proxy! How  
> do I do it?

export http_proxy=http://proxy:portnum/

Put this in your .bashrc, /etc/profile, or the like.  I recommend 
setting https_proxy and ftp_proxy to the same value.

Regards,
Paul

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