Following the installation instructions I run into this error

Installing https://github.com/ros-pkg-git/kinect.git master to /home/chris/ros/kinect

Cloning into /home/chris/ros/kinect...

error: SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details:

error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed while accessing https://github.com/ros-pkg-git/kinect.git/info/refs

fatal: HTTP request failed

ERROR: Failed to install tree '/home/chris/ros/kinect'

 vcs not setup correctly