System-wide proxies in CLI Ubuntu/Server must be set as environment variables.
- Open the
/etc/environment
file withvi
(or your favorite editor). This file stores the system-wide variables initialized upon boot. -
Add the following lines, modifying appropriately. You must duplicate in both upper-case and lower-case because (unfortunately) some programs only look for one or the other:
http_proxy="http://myproxy.server.com:8080/" https_proxy="http://myproxy.server.com:8080/" ftp_proxy="http://myproxy.server.com:8080/" no_proxy="localhost,127.0.0.1,localaddress,.localdomain.com" HTTP_PROXY="http://myproxy.server.com:8080/" HTTPS_PROXY="http://myproxy.server.com:8080/" FTP_PROXY="http://myproxy.server.com:8080/" NO_PROXY="localhost,127.0.0.1,localaddress,.localdomain.com"
-
apt-get
,aptitude
, etc. will not obey the environment variables when used normally withsudo
. So separately configure them; create a file called95proxies
in/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/
, and include the following:Acquire::http::proxy "http://myproxy.server.com:8080/"; Acquire::ftp::proxy "ftp://myproxy.server.com:8080/"; Acquire::https::proxy "https://myproxy.server.com:8080/";
Finally, logout and reboot to make sure the changes take effect.
Sources: 1, 2. See 1 in particular for additional help, including a script to quickly turn on/off the proxies.