Linux proxy setup

April 6, 2022

Sometimes we need to set up a proxy from the command line due to network issues. On Ubuntu, the common commands I use that require networking are curl, git, apt, wget, docker, maven, gradle, npm, yarn etc. Some of these commands access proxy settings in environment variables, some of them requires specific configurations. In this post, we are targeting a Debian-based distribution, e.g, Debian and Ubuntu…