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25 February 2010
This is a quick tip for people using fedora 12 behind a proxy. If happens that you want to install software or update your system but diden`t work, then this solution may help you.
This happened to me before so i will share with you how i resolved this issue.
When i was trying to update or install new software on my fedora 12 behind the proxy i got the error as described in the screenshot bellow
Now we will see the how to resolve this issue :
open a terminal under root access and edit /etc/yum.conf
su -
vi /etc/yum.conf
Now add one of the 2 lines bellow to the yum.conf file :
proxy=http://username:password@hostname:port /
or
proxy=ftp://username:pass@hotname:port:port/
save and exit . Now try again to update or install some packages
Is working !!
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