Comment 13 for bug 1005593

Create/edit /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/03proxy
and add following:
Acquire::http::Proxy "http:://your.proxy.server:1234"

Where 1234 is the port the proxy listen for connections.

Anyway you may edit the synaptic network settings in case you use it or
move towards the KDE4 which was finally my choice. I don't know why
those distro guys lets this in my opinion important feature without any
attention.

This is fcking common requirement to modify proxy and the lack of this
feature keeps a lot of first time users away from linux. Thank you
GNOME3, thank you MATE, thank you all those cool, new, trendy developers
for all those fishes!

Have fun!
VBspam
On 11/21/2012 07:07 PM, Luca Pancioni wrote:
> Hi,
> I cannot upgrade the system. I can only use Firefox because it is posible to set the proxy in the prefernces. I have tried everything:
> I have set the env variables but nothing. The system doesn't connect, i.e. I cannot install gnome-control-center.
>
> Please can you help me? I need of some comand line to set up the proxy.
>