On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 1:49 AM, Avinash Sonawane <rootkea@gmail.com> wrote:
Which is the standard/recommended way to set system wide proxy in
Debian instead of editing utility specific rc files (wgetrc, apt.conf
etc)?
I am aware of /etc/environment, setting http_proxy environ variable
and then export it, editing bashrc.
Environment’s the only method I know of.
Almost all of those programs will honor it, as will a lot of GUI programs and desktop environments, although they might want you to manually check off an option for it to do so.