Re: apt-get errors : localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1)



abonnema wrote:
Additionally to the previous message, it turns out that this problem is
user-confined. Using root I do not have this problem. In stead issuing
apt-get update after su - gives me a correct update, no errors.

Why is adept/apt-get trying to talk to localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1) in
stead of my ethernet card, while it works correctly for root?

Because you have http_proxy defined? (at a shell, "echo $http_proxy").
If so, perhaps you configured it at one point in the GNOME proxy
configuration control panel?

... Adam

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