On 04/04/2019 04:45, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Apr 2019 21:37:46 +0200, Roby  declaimed the
> following:
>
>
>> Then I installed it:
>> sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
>> But the RPI says:
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>>   apt-transport-https
>> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 17 not upgraded.
>> E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found.
>> N: Is the package apt-transport-https installed?
>>
>> I have also tried:
>> sudo apt-get install ca-certificates
>>
>> but it does not work !!!!!! :/
>>
>> Did I do something wrong ?
>
>  Well -- your first (snipped) comment is that you changed the sources
> file to require https:
>
>  So naturally the install is looking to download the https package
> /using/ https which isn't installed.
>
>  If you were out visiting this remote machine (as I recall, you've
> mentioned using other hardware at the site for testing), you should have
> brought back the SD card -- installed/booted an RPi with a properly
> configured network, made all your updates/upgrades, and then taken that
> card back to the remote site on your next trip... {I'd suggest making
> duplicate SD cards -- and keeping one at home so you can perform
> updates/upgrades to it, and then take it to the remote site and just swap
> SD cards... bringing the older one back to have updates/upgrades
> applied...}
>
>
>
Remember you can also push .deb packages to the remote site using sftp

And manually install them.

You do not *have* to use apt-get on the remote machine.


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