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My friend Mustafa talked about adding proxy as environment variable by exporting the http proxy server in a previous post.
I another problem,found what about a proxy server that needs authentication ? There is no problem if the application read the Gnome/KDE proxy settings because you can add the authentication parameters easily there, the problem comes from wget and other terminal based programs…

This may help you

export http_proxy="http://username:password@Proxy_IP_address:Proxy_port"

and this for ftp server

export ftp_proxy="ftp://username:password@Proxy_IP_address:Proxy_port"

to make them permanent you have to add the above lines to /etc/bash.bashrc, you can make user specific by adding the lines to /home/user/.bashrc instead of the main .bashrc