Lucky me to be able to work with my BSNL broad band connection without any issues today. Hopefully they have fixed this persisting connection issue permanently. Otherwise I will have to think about playing around with my Airtel GPRS and Ubuntu to get going online. (It’s on To-Do at the moment)
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