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In my office I want to update and download through wget and here they are using a proxy. How can I get wget to use the proxy from the command-line?

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The title references apt-get but the question is about wget. Which one of the two are you interested in? – Riccardo Murri Oct 15 '10 at 14:51
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Either export the "http_proxy" environment variable as in "export http_proxy=http://myproxy:port" or add

Acquire::http:proxy "http://MYNAME:MYPASS@MY.PROXY.COM:MYPORT"

To /etc/apt/apt.conf.

See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=96802

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Acquire::http::Proxy "MYDOMAIN\MYNAME:MYPASS@MY.PROXY.COM:MYPORT" correct? – Renjith G Oct 15 '10 at 11:41
Don't know, depends on your proxy and how it works. – tante Oct 15 '10 at 11:45
:-( , I am getting error "Access to web proxy service denied!" – Renjith G Oct 15 '10 at 11:51
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If your machine is behind a proxy running a Microsoft NTLM based web proxy you may need something like the (python based) ntlmaps to sit between wget/apt-get and the real proxy to do the authentication for you.

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