[Nottingham] Dropbox

Paul Sladen notlug at paul.sladen.org
Mon Aug 25 11:50:53 UTC 2014


On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, stripes wrote:
> Downloaded from the website and installed no problem

This works, because the browser (eg. Firefox) has already been told
about the web proxy.

> Tried wget but proxies won't let it connect.

wget and dropbox look for for the $usb_proxy environment, so from a
terminal:

  export http_proxy=http://username:password@proxy:8080
  wget ...

ditto for dropbox.

	-Paul




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