Just from a quick search of the forums of apps that need apt-transport-https.
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These arenāt Kodi packages / related to Kodi.
TVHeadend from OSMC App Store definitely doesnāt require HTTPS; as it comes from the OSMC repository.
Nonetheless, I can add this package soon.
Sam
Sorry I didnāt mean to imply they were Kodi packages. I only meant to say there were common packages used by apps installed on OSMC.
I may be mistaken, but I thought I saw something either here or elsewhere that nexflix also required this package. With Kodi 18 being able to have Netflix, I figured adding this package would make it easier to install.
so only a few more ā¦ months 
https://libreelec.tv/2019/02/libreelec-leia-9-0-0-release/
libreelec released their leia build more than one month ago. 
The grass is always greener in the neighbors yard
If you need v18 this urgently, why not install it from the testing thread?
Sam
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itās ok. i will try to be patient ā¦ just wondering what is taking so long.
@bendsch I have a LibreELEC unit. It doesnāt have video out on some TVs using LE9. I had to go back to 8.2.5.
As frustrating as waiting can be, I, for one, appreciate the wait. Iām a software developer by trade and one thing Iāve learned is that fast almost always means shoddy. I always tell my clients that they have three optionsā¦ fast, cheap, and goodā¦ but they can only pick two. Fast and cheap development is never quality work. Fast and good development is never cheap. Cheap and good development is never fast. Thatās just the way it works. Yes, you could feasibly release something like OSMC a few days after upstream and produce a great productā¦ but only at the (very real) cost of having a huge, experienced development team that requires quite a lot of money. With a comparatively small dev team and nonexistent price point, quality work takes time. So, I say again; take as much time as you need @sam_nazarko, at least I know when itās released it will be the quality product we all love.
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The grass is also greener where you water it.
Samās put a lot of effort into the upcoming release and I look forward to it. As a software developer myself, I can echo some of the statements previously posted (i.e. fast, cheap, good - choose two). Iād rather Sam take his time and end up with a reliable, stable product than rush a release.
Also, I know @sam_nazarko doesnāt want to throw stones at Kodi developers, but there is a lot of stuff they canāt test completely, even with a beta, and thereās a lot of stuff that add-on developers canāt (or donāt) test completely, but Sam and the rest of the OSMC team donāt want to release OSMC with problems that they know about, even if they might not technically be OSMC problems.
You canāt throw stones to free/open source developers. When you pay itās a different relationship. At least you are entitled to ask for support or getting fixed broken things.
I have no problem waiting for a release for my Vero 4K.
I feel for you @sam_nazarko
At least when I drove to Wally World, I didnāt have thousands of backseat riders ( and Edna on the roof) asking āwhen?!ā 24/7.
Thing is we pay for osmc support, but sometimes the issues are directly and only related to Kodi. Sam and the Devs push lots of fixes to the Kodi repo but itās not their fault if something is broken nor their duty to fix it.
Iām not in a hurry for Kodi 18 and not blaming anyone. I understand things need time. I just wait for some kind of pre-release/beta version reliable enough in a way which customizations done wonāt be lost when final/stable version will be released.
But not in a hurry, as Iāve said.
I want to jump in again to talk about the fact the @sam_nazarko & company have to make sure things work right, despite bugs in packages they have no control over.
Although this ffmpeg bug doesnāt actually affect Kodi or OSMC in any way, ffmpeg is used by Kodi. So, when the ffmpeg developers basically say that a warning doesnāt mean anything, but donāt fix the code to prevent the warning, this kind of thing is a big problem for Kodi and OSMC
There are many warning messages like this from upstream packages that have to be individually examined to make sure they really are harmless, and not actual bugs that slipped by.
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Kodi 18 beta can be installed already, thereās a thread with instructions in the development section
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