suyash2
August 6th, 2014, 08:36 AM
I am new to ubuntu and am badly stuck with this problem. sudo apt-get update fails with following errors:
E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found.
and if I try to install apt-transport-https, I get this error:
sudo apt-get install -f apt-transport-https
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package apt-transport-https
I tried other suggestions mentioned on this page http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2179538 but to no avail. Some requested output from the posts mentioned on this page are:
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
uname -a
Linux vps.mts5.com 3.2.0-37-virtual #58-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 24 15:48:03 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-updates main
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security main
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise universe
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-updates universe
grep -Rv '#' /etc/apt/sources.list.d
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/mozillateam-firefox-next-precise.list:deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/firefox-next/ubuntu precise main
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/mozillateam-firefox-next-precise.list:deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/firefox-next/ubuntu precise main
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/passenger.list:deb https://oss-binaries.phusionpassenger.com/apt/passenger precise main
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/passenger.list.save:deb https://oss-binaries.phusionpassenger.com/apt/passenger precise main
I even tried replacing the files as provided in an attachment mentioned in the above mentioned thread link in order to push https inside the apt/methods directory but nothing has helped so far.
I don't recall anything gone wrong in recent past. How can these problems be fixed? Would highly appreciate any help/pointers.
E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found.
and if I try to install apt-transport-https, I get this error:
sudo apt-get install -f apt-transport-https
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package apt-transport-https
I tried other suggestions mentioned on this page http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2179538 but to no avail. Some requested output from the posts mentioned on this page are:
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
uname -a
Linux vps.mts5.com 3.2.0-37-virtual #58-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 24 15:48:03 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-updates main
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security main
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise universe
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-updates universe
grep -Rv '#' /etc/apt/sources.list.d
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/mozillateam-firefox-next-precise.list:deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/firefox-next/ubuntu precise main
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/mozillateam-firefox-next-precise.list:deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/firefox-next/ubuntu precise main
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/passenger.list:deb https://oss-binaries.phusionpassenger.com/apt/passenger precise main
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/passenger.list.save:deb https://oss-binaries.phusionpassenger.com/apt/passenger precise main
I even tried replacing the files as provided in an attachment mentioned in the above mentioned thread link in order to push https inside the apt/methods directory but nothing has helped so far.
I don't recall anything gone wrong in recent past. How can these problems be fixed? Would highly appreciate any help/pointers.