Using SOCKS4 in YUM

[kgdinesh]

Hi all,

I have an internet connection through socks4 proxy form a server nearby to my laptop(fedora 12)

i need to update and install sofwares.

How to configure yum to use the socks proxy??

please,help me out

[SiliconSlick]

A quick Google of "yum proxy" turns up the following in the top results.

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=742
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=31402
http://www.labtestproject.com/linux_...ux_fedora.html

Did you try any of the approaches given in those?

SS

[PabloTwo]

From 'man yum.conf'?

proxy URL to the proxy server that yum should use.

proxy_username username to use for proxy

proxy_password password for this proxy