How to install Snapper on Ubuntu 16.04 Server using BTRFS as file system

Question

I am having some difficulty installing Snapper(http://snapper.io/) on Ubuntu Server 16.04.

When I follow instructions from Snapper for Ubuntu 16.04, I am getting the below error:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libsnapper
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 41 not upgraded.
Need to get 197 kB of archives.
After this operation, 674 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Err:1 

(download.opensuse.org/repositories/filesystems:/snapper/xUbuntu_16.04 libsnapper 0.5.1 Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl E: Failed to fetch)

(download.opensuse.org/repositories/filesystems:/snapper/xUbuntu_16.04/./amd64/libsnapper_0.5.1_amd64.deb Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl)

This seems to work fine for Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop. Can I make it work for server???

Answer 1

I just changed the https to http in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/snapper.list and now it works

This is a work around as opensuse org does not support https i guess.

https://github.com/openSUSE/snapper/issues/357