installing yum from terminal

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hi,

I have FC4 and am under a proxy. I wanted to install some programs via YUM. But the terminal is not confiogured (gnome) to proxy. how do i do that so that i could access the rpms via yum for automated installation. help!! thanks.

/legolas.

iirc there used to be a gnome-network-settings or a similar app in RedHat. You should see in Fedora is there is something similar available. Just do this in a terminal window and see if you get something similar

Code:

ls /usr/bin | grep gnome

that is the basic network setting and i have alreadt configured that. I wanted to setup proxy for the terminal so that wehn trying to connect to internet via yum in terminal, i dotn get blocked.

/legolas

Add the following environment variable to your .bash_profile file.

http_proxy=http//username:yourpassword@proxyip:80
export http_proxy

legolas said:
that is the basic network setting and i have alreadt configured that. I wanted to setup proxy for the terminal so that wehn trying to connect to internet via yum in terminal, i dotn get blocked.

Ah...I am sorry. This feature is not yet available in gnome 2.12. You will see gnome-terminal using gnome network settings from 2.14. Just told u about it from my own experience. Sorry