how to configure yum to get through proxy?

[chaosblade]

I've installed Fedora on my computer and i am using Mozilla firefox for accessing proxy server. The problem is yum does not connect to the proxy configuration. Any help will be extremely appreciated.

[Calvin K]

To configure YUM software to use proxy use the following command :

http_proxy=proxy:portnum

Then, export the variable:

export http_proxy

[Lillebror]

su -c 'gedit /etc/yum.conf

and

[root@unixmen ~]# vi    /etc/bashrc

[root@unixmen ~]# yum   update

are the most important command use in configuration.yum reads it's proxy info. from /etc/yum.conf ...To enable all yum operations to use a proxy server, you need to declare the proxy server details in /etc/yum.conf. By default, yum accesses network repositories with HTTP. To Using yum with a Proxy Server edit and configure yum.conf to enable update through proxy server.

[Wynn]

If your proxy server requires a username and password, specify the settings by adding proxy_username and proxy_password settings. however when using yum with yum-rhn-plugin, the RHN part takes over file downloads (due to the complexity of RHN interaction) and that uses the proxy info.