proxy and apt-get

There are numerous suggestions - presumably these vary on distribution.

The thing that worked for me with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS was editing /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf to add:

Acquire::http::proxy "http://proxysg.uwe.ac.uk:8080";
Acquire::ftp::proxy "ftp://proxysg.uwe.ac.uk:8080";

mount blackboard locally

1. Set up webdav access to blackboard content

2. Install dav2fs

3. mkdir local_destination for remote files.

4. sudo mount -t davfs https://blackboard.uwe.ac.uk/lo/ca/tion/ local_destination

BINGO!