[ttf-mscorefonts-installer] synaptic still rises error messages
Nils Kassube
kassube at gmx.net
Fri Dec 9 15:04:08 UTC 2016
zweiund40 wrote:
> Nevertheless I was curious so I tried it on a virtual machine and I
> got that output:
>
> root at pandora:~/Downloads# apt install
> ~/Downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb
>
> ... bla bla bla
> ... and a lot of output
>
> All done, no errors.
> N: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file
> '/root/Downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb' couldn't be
> accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
> root at pandora:~/Downloads#
>
> An error message at the very end of a long list of accomplished
> messages. Annoying! I don't understand it. I mean the required file is
> in that directory and I installed it as root. Why is there a
> permission problem?
The directory /root (including subdirectories) is only accessible by
root and obviously the installer tried to access the file as another
user (_apt).
Nils
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