[Nottingham] Ubuntu apt-get issue

[Sergiusz Pawlowicz]

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 15:24, David Aldred <david at familyaldred.org.uk> wrote:
> On Saturday 30 May 2009, Sergiusz Pawlowicz wrote:
>> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 21:07, David Aldred <david at familyaldred.org.uk>
> wrote:
>> > Anyone got any ideas on this?
>>
>> ser at zx~> cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20proxy
>> Acquire::http::proxy "http://128.243.253.119:8080";
>
> Er, not quite with you.  That's a University of Nottingham server, isn't it?
>
> I tried creating that file with those contents, just in case, but it made no
> difference; I'm not sure a University proxy would accept connections from
> outside the University network anyway!

Sorry if I was not clear - you need to specify your own proxy in this
file, I am using uni proxy.

S.