Comment 36 for bug 232469

I am running Lucid behind a non-transparent proxy. I was experiencing the same issue of wget not working in postinst scripts while installing packages, but I was able to get it to work by setting http_proxy in /etc/wgetrc. I would love to fix this bug, but I am confused as to which is the culprit: postinst scripts, wget, apt-get, gnome-terminal, gnome-control-center, or something else.