Problem with apt (apt-get) in Kubuntu 16.04

[Matthias Klumpp]

2016-01-26 4:28 GMT+01:00 Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com>:
> On Monday, January 25, 2016 07:47:29 PM Paul Loughman wrote:
>> Executing sudo apt-get dist-upgrade results in a change of ownership of the
>> /var/cache/apt/archives/partial directory. Below is what it is changed to
>> after running the command.
>>
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 16384 Jan 25 19:39 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root  4096 Jan 25 19:39 ..
>> drwr——— _apt root  4096 Jan 25 19:36 partial
>>
>> Ownership should not be _apt root. It should remain root root.
>>
>> This behavior is not present prior to Kubuntu 16.04.
>
> I think this is an intentional design change in apt.  I see it on Debian Sid
> as well.

Jup, APT is not running network stuff as root anymore, which is a nice
security enhancement. So the behaviour you are seeing is intended.
Cheers,
    Matthias