I got to browse Sampada via Open Solaris Live CD and found that Kannada works out of box. You can find Sampada.net web page loaded on to the browsers in the picture added above. (OpenSolaris 2008-11)
Fix a “E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/http could not be found.” error
Following is an error encountered on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS $ sudo apt-get update E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/http could not be found. This can be easily fixed by installing apt-transport-https as follows. sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
