[Haskell-cafe] Cabal proxy configuration

2011-01-27 Thread Azeem -ul-Hasan
My university requires the students to use internet through an authenticated http proxy. How do I configure cabal for that? I am using Ubuntu. Please be detailed about it. Thanks Azeem ___ Haskell-Cafe mailin

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal proxy configuration

2011-01-27 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 28 January 2011 15:13, Azeem -ul-Hasan wrote: > My university requires the students to use internet through an authenticated > http proxy. How do I configure cabal for that? I am using Ubuntu. Please be > detailed about it. Do you mean Cabal or cabal-install? Assuming the latter: export http

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal proxy configuration

2011-01-27 Thread Azeem -ul-Hasan
(use: setAuthorityGen); returning Nothing cabal: Failed to download index 'ErrorMisc "Unsucessful HTTP code: (4,0,7)"' This is the first time I am using cabal so I am almost completely blank for it. Thanks Azeem > Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:26:08 +1000 > Subject: Re:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal proxy configuration

2011-01-27 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 28 January 2011 16:00, Azeem -ul-Hasan wrote: > > Please explain this a bit. Where are the configuration files for cabal > install. cabal-install is configured in ~/.cabal/config However, as far as I'm aware it uses normal http connections and doesn't require any particular configuration for