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APTthroughaProxy?

Using apt through a HTTP proxy is very easy, however it is not documented very well.

In /etc/apt/apt.conf put the following.
" Acquire {
Retries "0";
Http {
Proxy "http://user:pass@proxy:port/";
}
};

Then apt-get(8) away.