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[Question #76262]: No system-wide proxy setting Xbuntu 9.04

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From: Rodney Millard <question76262@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:04:46 -0000
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New question #76262 on Ubuntu:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/76262

I want to be able to install updates, new programs, use remote desktop and vpn clients.
But I am behind a corporate proxy.
For Ubuntu there is a menu option to set a system-wide network proxy. (I do not need to provide a password).
For Xbuntu there is no corresponding option.
I can point Firefox to a proxy.pac file and the browser then works, but other programs, like "apt" do not.
I have tried many suggestions such as:
    export http_proxy=http:://ProxyURL:PortNumber
and 
    export http_proxy="http:://ProxyURL:PortNumber"
where I have replaced "ProxyURL" and "PortNumber" with the ones that work for Ubuntu.
I have added the above to:
    /etc/bash.bashrc
    ~/.bashrc
    /etc/environment
all to no avail.
Regards, Rodney.


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