Comment 16 for bug 556293

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Stanislav German-Evtushenko (giner) wrote : Re: sudo does not keep http_proxy environment variable

Here are two work arounds that I use:

1) adding to /etc/sudoers:
Defaults env_keep = "http_proxy https_proxy ftp_proxy"
or
2) sudo -E apt-get install ...

Hope this gets fixed soon too.