If you fail to run the firmware upgrades on Dell poweredge servers with the following error:
update_firmware fails with “bad xml for package”
remount /tmp without nosuid,noexec and run the ugprade again. This will solve the issue.
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
