fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'https'
A common issue with git is when you try clone a project (nodejs in my case) appears this error: git clone https://github.com/nodejs/node.git Cloning into 'node'... fatal: Unable to find remote helper for 'https' I was reading different solutions, like replace https by git, but the errors is still here: git clone git://github.com/nodejs/node.git Cloning into 'node'... fatal: unable to connect to github.com: github.com[0: 192.30.253.113]: errno=Connection timed out Other recurrent solution is to install openssl libraries for curl (to read https protocol): sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev Now, you must install git again: wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.12.0.tar.gz tar xvf git-2.12.0.tar.gz cd git-2.12.0 ./configure make -j8 sudo make install Enjoy it!