How do you "make install" without direct internet access?

[Christian Hiris]

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On Tuesday 23 November 2004 21:31, Ralph wrote:
> Hey, I've got a proxy-out connection where these boxes
> are installed.  In other words, the only way to get
> out to the internet is through the http/ftp proxy.  So
> in my /etc/profile I have a line
>
> HTTP_PROXY=my.internal.proxy:80
> export HTTP_PROXY
>
>  But when I do a make install I can't fetch
> anything... thoughts?
>

You need to set FTP_PROXY, if you want to fetch ftp via proxy. 
Refer to 'man 3 fetch' for the datails.

Cheers,
ch

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