Pacman with Socks Proxy

krax · 2011-10-09 08:55:06

I am on very restricted wi-fi connection which is limit all access to git or mercurial repositories directly. So i made myself a ssh connection and runs it with gstm.
now i have two problems:
@First; how could I make pacman use 127.0.0.1:6666 for a socks proxy
@the second; adding XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl --socks5 127.0.0.1:6666 %u > %o to the pacman doesn't help with YAOURT command or makepkg. how could i make yaourt also uses the socks proxy?

If someone be kind enough to help me with this it would be more than great because more than the fare share of packages in AUR are sourced on git servers and i cant installed them using yaourt or makepkg.

thanks
PS: i mean how make yaourt foo uses the 127.0.0.1:6666 all the way long up to the end from downloading the source and so on.

Last edited by krax (2011-10-09 09:03:59)

dschrute · 2011-10-09 11:32:59

tsocks lets you use a socks proxy with programs that don't support that natively. See it's project page for info on using it.

retry · 2011-10-11 07:38:50

Or use privoxy http proxy which directs everything to socks proxy.

gccplus · 2016-01-05 16:17:47

proxychains do the same job. but I'm still wondering if there is a way yaourt or pacman can only use the proxy setting only when the dead link happened.

WorMzy · 2016-01-06 20:57:40

Please don't necrobump, gccplus.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … bumping.22

Closing.

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#1 2011-10-09 08:55:06

Pacman with Socks Proxy

#2 2011-10-09 11:32:59

Re: Pacman with Socks Proxy

#3 2011-10-11 07:38:50

Re: Pacman with Socks Proxy

#4 2016-01-05 16:17:47

Re: Pacman with Socks Proxy

#5 2016-01-06 20:57:40

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