apt-get through a http proxy

God – this bugged me no end at my workplace. Especially the interplay of sudo, loading environment variables, etc. with http proxy.

Rule of thumb is – sudo (if present) should be the first command, http_proxy (if present) should be the second and then the rest of the actual command

Effectively, it is something like

sudo http_proxy=http://1.1.1.1:80 apt-get update

 

 

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