[ttf-mscorefonts-installer] synaptic still rises error messages

[zweiund40]

Hi Nils,

it sounds correct. But on the other hand downloading the fonts per wget 
and simply reconfiguring the packet worked without any further errors. 
That is what I meant. Ubuntu is indeed a debian derivative and using 
debian packages should be working, but ...


On 09.12.2016 16:04, Nils Kassube wrote:
> 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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