Re: not possible to install apt-transport-https package on jessie

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Friday 30 December 2016 13:45:49 Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 30/12/2016 à 14:19, John Naggets a écrit :
> > Do you have an idea which line could be missing? Here is the content
> > of my /etc/apt/sources.list file:
> >
> > deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian jessie main
> > deb-src http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ jessie main
> >
> > deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main
> > deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main
> >
> > # jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
> > deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main
> > deb-src http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main
>
> It looks fine, but is that all ? There is no https repository, so
> apt-get should have no reason to complain about missing https transport,
> except one of the mirrors is broken and redirects to https URLs.
> "apt-cache policy" may provide extra information.
>
> BTW, ca-certificate is only a "recommends", so you could try to install
> with --no-install-recommends.

Is ca-certificates perhaps in contrib or non-free?

Lisi