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Originally Posted by Dehshizknight View Post
Since my college uses a proxy with a login on their wifi, I'm limited to just the web browser for internet access. As for the application manager, IM, etc. I'm out of luck. I saw this mentioned in another thread from a while back to no avail. Maybe a reboot to the idea can spark someone with more experience to get this idea in development?
You can just export the http proxy with the correct credentials and then use apt to get packages. I think pidgin accepts proxy too