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I've set a global proxy from Applications -> Network so firefox has access.

I've followed 'apt-get' does not work with Proxy so apt-get also works.

But if I try other commands which require the internet, for example wget, I generally get errors to the effect of:

failed: Connection timed out.

How can I set EVERYTHING to use the proxy? There's no other way to connect.

Tried bash -c export http_proxy='proxy_ip:port/' from no internet for terminal- connect through a proxy but no joy.

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bash -c will not set http_proxy in your current environment.

(btw no need to export it in the environment)

Set it manually at the terminal prompt 

$ http_proxy=http://server:port
$ wget ...

If you want to have it enabled each time you open a terminal, edit your .bashrc file (located in the root of your home directory) and add the line at the end of the file : 

$ gedit $HOME/.bashrc
 ...
 http_proxy=http://server:port
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I've always edited the wgetrc file to use wget from behind a proxy. There are two wgetrc files. First of all there is /etc/wgetrc for global configuration and secondly there is ~/.wgetrc for user based configuration.

If you add the following line into wgetrc you can configure it to use a proxy:

http_proxy=http://server:port

Hope this helps.

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