I waant to get empathy to work but am having problems. In my research I
found this possible solution:

*     Problem*: Can add a Yahoo account but get a network error connecting
(proxy server active)

*     Solution*: As Yahoo uses port 5050, this port has to be able to get
through. If your internet connection is via a

      proxy server the proxy server has to allow a port 5050 tunnel.

   - In squid proxy, by default the group of SSL_ports are allowed to be
   tunnelled. A few ports are predefined. You can add port 5050 to these ports
   by adding the line
      - 'acl SSL_ports port 5050 # Empathy - Yahoo connection'
   - Add the above line at the bottom of the other 'acl SSL_ports ...'
   lines. Everything after the '#' is a comment only
   - Restart the squid proxy
   - One last thing, if you don't control your proxy server, for example you
   use a company proxy server, you would have to ask the administrator to
   enable port 5050 tunnelling.


Unfortunately, the solution didn't tell me where squid proxy is. I tried
'locate squid' from / but that returned null. Anybody want to help me out?
Maybe I used locate incorrectly.
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