apt-get update fails with sourceforge repo

[Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de>]

Hi,

I just encountered an odd problem with a repo hosted on sourceforge, when
calling apt-get update with this repo enabled in the sources.list I ended
with a 301 error. Apparently this happens because sourceforge dropped its
http service and now uses https exclusively. It took me a while to find
that I had to install apt-transport-https to enable https support for
apt-get and change the respective entry in sources.list from http:// to
https:// , still it does not work however. Now on apt-get update I get the
following error message:

Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl

This is obviously the same problem as described here:

https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/site-support/12143/

Oddly enough, with an old laptop that still runs a completely dated
version of LMDE (no more updates for the last two years or so) after
installing apt-transport-https and fixing the sources.list line it
worked, but so far no luck with my up-to-date Jessie :(

Does anyone have an idea if there's something I can do about this?

TIA and best regards

Michael

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