SBT install failure with aptitude on Ubuntu 14.04

Question

I receive several errors when I attempt to install sbt on Ubuntu via aptitude with the instructions from the scala-sbt homepage:

echo "deb https://dl.bintray.com/sbt/debian /" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sbt.list sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install sbt 

http://www.scala-sbt.org/0.13/tutorial/Installing-sbt-on-Linux.html

First I get a package validation error and then a segmentation fault.

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed:   sbt 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded. Need to get 1,041 kB of archives. After this operation, 1,224 kB of additional disk space will be used. WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!   sbt Install these packages without verification? [y/N] y E: Method https has died unexpectedly! E: Sub-process https received a segmentation fault. 

EDIT:

I can browse the mirror fine without any cert errors.

Confirming which mirror it's using with apt-cache.

$ sudo apt-cache policy sbt sbt:   Installed: (none)   Candidate: 0.13.7   Version table:      0.13.7 0         500 https://dl.bintray.com/sbt/debian/  Packages      0.13.6 0         500 https://dl.bintray.com/sbt/debian/  Packages      0.13.5 0         500 https://dl.bintray.com/sbt/debian/  Packages      0.13.2 0         500 https://dl.bintray.com/sbt/debian/  Packages      0.13.1-0.1-build-001 0         500 https://dl.bintray.com/sbt/debian/  Packages      0.13.0-0.1-build-001 0         500 https://dl.bintray.com/sbt/debian/  Packages      0.12.4-0.1-build-001 0         500 https://dl.bintray.com/sbt/debian/  Packages 

EDIT 2: I ended up just downloading the package manually and installing it with dpkg.

Answer 1

There are related answers which lead me to this solution:

wget https://dl.bintray.com/sbt/debian/sbt-0.13.7.deb sudo dpkg -i sbt-0.13.7.deb 

P.S. I think that officially documented way does not work because they didn't provide the public key used by apt to authenticate packages.

P.P.S. After some research I've found that this issue is more related to the apt package, there are many reports about this error at bugs.launchpad.net. So, while it's still an issue that sbt didn't provide public key, but it shouldn't cause this error. I hope canonical will resolve this soon.

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