On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Mahesh T. Pai <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sharad Birmiwal said on Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 10:00:20AM -0400,:
>
>  > The reason is because apt-get invokes a program called http to
>  > download packages. Here is what I tried.
>
> While I do find the thread interesting, and commend your efforts, I
> suspect this statement.
>
> There is no program called `http' on a GNU/Linux system.


Umm.. From my Ubuntu 11.04 system -

[~] ➔ file /usr/lib/apt/methods/http
/usr/lib/apt/methods/http: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1
(SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.15,
stripped

-- Anupam
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