[Ubuntu-SG] Global proxy command?

[Maung Myat Thu @ Billy Aung Myint]

On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 11:19 +0800, Mark Philip wrote:
> Hi all,
> I use my XUbuntu distro in VMWare, and depending on where I am, I need 
> to set up the proxy server so that I can access outside of my work intranet.
> 
> This is easy enough whilst using applications such as Firefox, but how 
> do I do this via the command line? (i.e. globally)
> 
> For example, I work in Temasek Polytechnic and the proxy server here is 
> tp.edu.sg, port 80.
> How do I specify this to work from the command line, so that 'apt-get' 
> will work?

Must it be from commandline ? If not there is a "Network Proxy"
preference menu at System -> Preference. Hope that helps.

regards
billy

> 
> Thanks for the advance info, - sorry as I'm a newbie to XUbuntu.
> -- 
> Best,
> Mark.
> 
> Composed using Thunderbird on XUbuntu 7.04,
> Via VMWare Server on Lenovo T60 hardware.
>