On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 09:00:23AM +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> On Fri, 16 Jun 2017, Taiidan@ wrote:
>
> >When trying to run apt-get update with https I receive this error
> >
> >curl: (1) Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl
>
> https://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html#Protocol_xxx_not_supported_or_di
>
> Is there some compelling reason to want apt-get to use HTTPS? After
> all, downloaded archives can be checked for integrity independently
> of the transport mechanism.
>
> Your problem description is a little vague, and I'd expect Devuan's
> libcurl to support HTTPS. I wonder what exactly have you done to try
> to make 'apt-get update' use https. Is 'curl' itself installed, and
> how was it installed? Do you know if you have installed curl/libcurl
> other than from packages? If you post the output of

Hi,

if you want to use apt-get via https, you should install
apt-transport-https.

HND

KatolaZ

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