A question about groups

[stan]

On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 11:31:48PM +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Sun, 2020-04-05 at 08:23 -0400, stan wrote:
> > I am trying to build an example package from source
> 
> Some Googling of the error message throws up a bug report and some
> possible workarounds.
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptitude/+bug/1543280
> 
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/954862/couldnt-be-accessed-by-user-apt-
> pkgacquirerun-13-permission-denied
> 
> Not mentioned that I saw, but one simple workaround is to write into a
> directory that an unprivileged user can definitely write to. Try doing
> it in /tmp for example. But you don't really have to, as this bug is
> (for source installs) harmless as far as I can tell.
> 

I was working in a directory that I just created, as the non root user that
I was trying to do this work as FYI.
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