Hi,

I have installed Knoppix 3.2 to hard disk and apart from a few issues, it went fine. As I had heard a lot about Debian's apt-get tool, I was eager to try it out.

However, apt-get does not seem to be able to connect to any of the sources mentioned in the sources.list file.

As I am behind an authenticated proxy, after Googling for some data, I specified the HTTP_PROXY variable as "ht<t>p://myname:mypass@myproxyip:myproxyport" and then ran apt-get update command.


The above command gives a standard working 0% etc output and then gives a timeout error for all the sources mentioned.

I am not very familiar with linux especially Debian... as I have been using rpm based distro's.

I can easily connect to the internet using mozilla and konqueror, but apt-get is the only issue.

Can someone please help me out on this.

The only related issue that I can think of is that DNS was not automatically configured during installation and so I had to change the /etc/resolv.conf and the /etc/networking/interfaces files for DNS to be configured which worked out (thanks to the Google again ).

However now I sometimes get an aptMutex error while running apt-get which I have no idea about.

Apologies about the long rant... its just that I am still getting used to Debian and am eager to try out the new Gnome2.4 for which I need apt-get working.

Any help will be highly appreciated.

Regards,

Quo