[Gllug] new Debian install

Stig Brautaset stigbrau at online.no
Sat Sep 29 22:45:25 UTC 2001


* matthew at marbit.freeserve.co.uk <matthew at marbit.freeserve.co.uk> spake thus:
> All,
> 
> Installed Potato onto a Libretto with the minimum trouble - Red Hat
> didn't want to BTW.
> 
> However I have neglected to select some modules and would like telnet
> and ftp functionality. I have a network connection to a Linux box and
> a Windows box.
> 
> Could someone please explain in terms simple enough for me to
> understand how I install this functionality?
> 
> Also, where do you tell Lynx to use a proxy for net access?

Put the following line in your ~/.bashrc (or equivalent):

export http_proxy="http://www.name.of.proxy:3128/"

Regards,
Stig

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