I had this problem today with 10.04.  The root cause is that environment
variables such as http_proxy are not preserved when you use sudo.   As a
workaround you can get a root shell with:

sudo bash

Then set http_proxy to what it should be:

export http_proxy=http://user:p...@stupidproxy.com:8080

Then you can do apt-get install or dpkg --configure -a if you had to
manually kill the previous install

HTH

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The installer should use system proxy settings.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/56880
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