How to set a proxy for apt-cyg?

Question

How to set a proxy for apt-cyg, http and socks? i tried using

export http_proxy= 

but it did not work.

Answer 1

This should work :

export ftp_proxy=http://[user]:[passwd]@[proxy.foo.com]:[portnumber]

Answer 2

You can also add it all in one line (it works well with cygwin/apt-get embedded in mobaxterm - add it to .bashrc):

export {ftp,http,https}_proxy=http://[user]:[passwd]@[proxy.foo.com]:[port]

Answer 3

I'm not sure about Cygwin, but these are the lines from my ~/.bashrc

export http_proxy=http://[user]:[passwd]@[proxy.foo.com]:[portnumber]
export https_proxy=http://[user]:[passwd]@[proxy.foo.com]:[portnumber]
export HTTP_PROXY=http://[user]:[passwd]@[proxy.foo.com]:[portnumber]
export HTTPS_PROXY=http://[user]:[passwd]@[proxy.foo.com]:[portnumber]

If cygwin is similar to bash, it should work.

Answer 4

I made it work by setting two Windows environment variables: http_proxy and http_proxy. I previously had HTTP_PROXY, but that wasn't picked up.

Note that as Cygwin is a Windows process, after setting the new environment variables you need to launch a new Cygwin process to pick up the change.