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Comment 8 for bug 283500

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Naaman Campbell (naamanc) wrote : Re: [Bug 283500] Re: Synaptic, update-manager, apt-get and wget should share proxy settings

Yes, this is a proxy that requires authentication.
The results of $http_proxy does not include the authentication
credentials if it is set "system wide" on Karmic Alpha 5:

http_proxy=http://proxy.domain.com:8080/

For $http_proxy to work, I use the following:

http_proxy=http://username:<email address hidden>:8080/