Using pip behind a proxy with CNTLM

Question

I am trying to use pip behind a proxy at work.

One of the answers from this post suggested using CNTLM. I installed and configured it per this other post, but runnin

Answer 1

With Ubuntu I could not get the proxy option to work as advertised – so following command did not work:

sudo pip --proxy http://web-proxy.mydomain.com install somepackage

But exporting the https_proxy environment variable (note its https_proxy not http_proxy) did the trick:

export https_proxy=http://web-proxy.mydomain.com

then

sudo -E pip install somepackage