Pkg.init() and Pkg.update() fails

[Mirage10]

Hello julia community!

I am facing big problems with Julia packages: Pkg.init() and Pkg.update() are not working. I have scanned the internet regarding the message, but nothing seems to be the right solution. I have already had a long odyssey ...
This seems to be an frequent trap. So it might be advantageous to be more clear in the installation chapter of julia.

Pkg.init()     

displays the following :

INFO: Initializing package repository /home/user/.julia/v0.5
INFO: Cloning METADATA from https://github.com/JuliaLang/METADATA.jl
ERROR: GitError(Code:ERROR, Class:Net, SSL error: error:140E0114:SSL routines:SSL_shutdown:uninitialized)
 [inlined code] from libgit2/error.jl:98
 in clone at libgit2/repository.jl:189
 in __clone#364__ at libgit2.jl:310
 in anonymous at pkg/dir.jl:49
 in cd at file.jl:47
 in init at pkg/dir.jl:47
 in init at pkg.jl:22
 in eval at ./boot.jl:264

by the way:

sudo git pull
sudo make

works fine! The only thing is, that I cannot install packages in Julia. My computer is behind the proxy. The proxy settings for git seems to be correct

System environment
Linux Mint 17.02 (based on Ubuntu 14.04)

newest julia from github
~/julia $ sudo ./julia
_
_ _ ()_ | A fresh approach to technical computing
() | () () | Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org
_ _ | | __ _ | Type "?help" for help.
| | | | | | |/ ` | |
| | || | | | (| | | Version 0.5.0-dev+1265 (2015-11-13 08:40 UTC)
/ |_'|||__'| | Commit f045831 (0 days old master)
|__/ | x86_64-linux-gnu

[tkelman]

duplicate of #13472
see #13952

[Mirage10]

It still seems not to be clear, what needs to be done. Therefore I would like to reopen this issue.

[tkelman]

Make the modification shown in https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/13952/files, then do make -C deps distclean-libgit2 && make test-pkg.

[Mirage10]

@tkelman : Thank you so much! your last post exactly solves my problem. cool!

[mronian]

@tkelman I am facing the same issue with Pkg. I tried the solution you mentioned above, but the make fails with a pkg-config not found error if I modify the flag.

[tkelman]

What platform? Install pkg-config? Though it shouldn't be an error if you don't have pkg-config installed.

[mronian]

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I looked through some of the related issues and tried the approaches. #13472 worked for me in the end. Thanks!