Polipo is a Linux proxy, like squid but it is intended in a personal use, I used to use squid as my personal proxy but because I have a PIV HT processor and 1 Gig of RAM, in Laptop that approach was just to heavy for it.
Now with Polipo things will change, well go to the installation.
Installation
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apt-get install polipo
But if you are configuring it as you home proxy, you can change these lines on the file /etc/polipo/config
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proxyAddress = "0.0.0.0" # IPv4 only
allowedClients = 127.0.0.1, 192.168.42.0/24
Firefox configuration
Go to Edit->Preferences-> Select Advanced and then click on setting, then Select "Manual proxy configuration" and enter the IP of the PC where polipo is installed and enter the port which is: 8123
Gnome configuration
Go to Desktop->preferences->Network Proxy And Select "Manual Proxy Configuration" and also here enter the IP of the PC where Polipo installed and the port 8123
As a final step you can configure your apt if you are using Debian or Ubuntu, I always do, that way my Laptop gets its updated really fast as usually my Desktop have already downloaded them.
Apt Configuration to work with proxy
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vi /etc/apt/apt.conf
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Acquire::http::Proxy "http://127.0.0.1:8123";