PLEASE NOTE THAT IF YOU ARE USING DIRECT CONNECTION TO THE INTERNET THEN THE FOLLOWING POST DOES NOT APPLY. TRYING TO SET THE SETTINGS MAY LEAD TO DISRUPTIONS / DISCONNECTION FROM THE INTERNET. How and where should I change proxy settings in Linux? This is a most frequent question posed by newbie (and not so new) Linux users ? This mountain can be scaled in three steps. Step 1 Using proxy to get simply connected to the internet Just change proxy setting in Firefox and/ or browser of your choice and start using internet. Ignore the rest of urges of Linux to get updates etc and life will be cool and simple. Of course life cannot continue to be so simple. One has to after all install programs etc. Step 2 Adding proxy for system-wide settings Now the next step is to setup proxy for "system-wide" setting. If using GNOME got to the System-> Preferences -> Network Proxy. Typical settings could be ip address/ host name of the proxy server and port name (t...