Hi,
Do you use a proxy in your network?
you have to setup a environment variable "http_proxy"
set like this.
export http_proxy=http://server-ip:port/
For more info on this, read here.
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-set-proxy-environment-variable/
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