On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 15:13:28 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > There was a similar topic to this a while back and I do not believe APT > supports HTTPS only HTTP and FTP.
APT supports HTTPS and HTTP. Many years ago, HTTPS support was new, and required a separate package. This is no longer the case; HTTPS support is included in the base apt package now. hobbit:~$ apt-cache search apt-transport apt - commandline package manager apt-transport-https - transitional package for https support libapt-pkg7.0 - package management runtime library apt-transport-s3 - APT transport for privately held AWS S3 repositories apt-transport-tor - APT transport for anonymous package downloads via Tor libapt-pkg6.0 - package management runtime library hobbit:~$ apt-cache show apt-transport-https [...] Description-en: transitional package for https support This is a dummy transitional package - https support has been moved into the apt package in 1.5. It can be safely removed. [...] It's not clear to me whether APT supports FTP transport at this time. I can't find any references to FTP in apt(8) or sources.list(5), and the only reference I can find in the documentation directory is this one: hobbit:/usr/share/doc/apt$ zgrep FTP * changelog.gz: * Change multi sources.list entry example from FTP to HTTPS But it's not clear whether that means FTP support is *gone* or simply no longer given as an example.
