Re: [Freemint-discuss] RPMint

[Peter S. <p....@sc...>]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 22:11:44 , Thorsten Otto <ad...@th...> wrote:

> On Montag, 23. April 2018 21:47:08 CEST Peter Slegg wrote:
>> I wanted to use github but the old version of wget (1.9.1) we have doesn't
>> support https
>
>I think you should be able to use plain http with github? Another option would
>be to try curl instead, but i have to admit that i'm not sure whether that
>version already supports https


I was trying to use the wget option --no-check-certificate but 1.9
doesn't support it.

I just discovered wget-ssl in the Sparemint RPMs but that doesn't support the
option either.

Perhaps wget or wget-ssl could be re-built to the latest stable version ?


Peter