Try to find automatically the existence of an APT proxy on the network. If found a proxy configure the system to use it.

Apt-proxy-discover is a script that aims to discover the existence of a proxy APT on the LAN.

This script does not need configuration.

It is run whenever a network interface is started or stopped.

When it finds a proxy configures the system to use it.

Apt-proxy-discover works only with Debian / Ubuntu and perhaps others using .DEB packages.

The manual installation of the script can be made as follows:

# cp apt-proxy-discover /etc/network/if-up.d/

# cd /etc/network/if-post-down.d/

# ln -s ../if-up.d/apt-proxy-discover apt-proxy-discover

# chmod 764 apt-proxy-discover

The installation of .DEB package can be made as follows:

 # dpkg -i apt-proxy-discover_0.4.5_all.deb

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.