APM doesn't work behind a corporate proxy

Question

The Error I get when I run (sudo) apm install minimap(or any other package):

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gyp http GET https://atom.io/download/atom-shell/v0.21.0/node-v0.21.0.tar.gz
gyp WARN install got an error, rolling back install
gyp ERR! install error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: tunneling socket could not be established, cause=Parse Error
gyp ERR! stack     at ClientRequest.onError (/usr/share/atom/resources/app/apm/node_modules/npm/node_modules/request/node_modules/tunnel-agent/index.js:168:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at ClientRequest.g (events.js:180:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:95:17)
gyp ERR! stack     at Socket.socketOnData (http.js:1593:9)
gyp ERR! stack     at TCP.onread (net.js:528:27)
gyp ERR! System Linux 3.13.0-45-generic
gyp ERR! command "/usr/share/atom/resources/app/apm/bin/node" "/usr/share/atom/resources/app/apm/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "install" "--target=0.21.0" "--dist-url=https://atom.io/download/atom-shell" "--arch=x64" "--ensure" "--proxy=http://172.31.1.4:8080/"
gyp ERR! cwd /home/anmol/.atom
gyp ERR! node -v v0.10.35
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v1.0.2
gyp ERR! not ok 

Answer 1

you can set proxy for Atom by typing in your terminal:

$ apm config set proxy "http://user:pass@host:port"
$ apm config set https_proxy "http://user:pass@host:port"

After that you can open Atom and you see quick result ;)

Answer 2

Before running the command use: export ATOM_NODE_URL=http://gh-contractor-zcbenz.s3.amazonaws.com/atom-shell/dist