Gnash

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 07:42:22 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>On 14 Nov 2016 7:22 a.m., "Till Uhlmann" <sinnfrei at freisinn.de> wrote:
>>
>> I'm unable to unistall gnash from my system. Ubuntu 16.04 Mate.
>> "W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file
>> '/root/.synaptic/tmp//tmp_cl' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. -
>> pkgAcquire::Run (13: Keine Berechtigung)"
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (13: Permission denied)

Please always run

  LANG=C <command>

e.g.

  LANG=C apt purge gnash

or

  sudo LANG=C synaptic

and always mention what release and flavour you are using, e.g. run

  lsb_release -rc

and if required inform us if this is e.g. lubuntu, ubuntu-mate or
another flavour.

Also consider to sent such a request to the users mailing list.
  
>> is the information i got by
>> trying uninstall gnash-common/gnash may i need only a valid apt-key
>> for reinstall gnash correct bevore uninstalling again  
>
>How exactly are you trying to install it?

I can't confirm this bug, but seemingly some people suffer from this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptitude/+bug/1543280 [1]

Please post the output of

  getent passwd _apt

here it looks like this

[root at moonstudio ~]# getent passwd _apt
_apt:x:113:65534::/nonexistent:/bin/false

You can run this as user, I run as root, because I run it in a
container, without booting (systemd-nspawn -qD /mnt/moonstudio).

Regards,
Ralf

[1]
Running

  cat /etc/passwd | grep apt

is disgusting, this should read

  grep apt /etc/passwd

or

  getent passwd _apt

even when first using

  cat /etc/passwd

we could then type

  ^cat^grep apt

and enter, to replace "cat" with "grep apt"