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Hugh Parker (hcp) wrote : Re: Not working with proxy

I'm also behind a proxy, and I got the same problem. As suggested in
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-75413.html
I changed /etc/wgetrc to include these lines:

http_proxy = http://eduproxy.bgfl.org:80/
use_proxy = on

Synaptic's terminal window now includes this line:

Resolving [myproxy]... failed: Connection timed out.

The same wget line works fine outside synaptic.