[OS X TeX] tlmgr and web proxies

[Maxwell, Adam R]

On 05/13/09 16:38, "Peter C. Lichtner" <lichtner at lanl.gov> wrote:

> I am unable to run tlmgr due to a proxy issue:
[...]
> 
>> It works at home ok. Does tlmgr have the ability to use web proxies and if so
>> how?

I believe tlmgr uses wget for all downloads, so you could try setting the
http_proxy environment variable for it.  Something like

export http_proxy="http://foo.lanl.gov" ; sudo tlmgr update ...

I've never tried this myself, and found the wget info here:

http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/wget/wget_34.html