Permission denied on dpkg plug-in-metadata-editor.ui.dpkg

[Samuel]

sudo apt install gimp-data
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gimp-data
0 to upgrade, 1 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/7,241 kB of archives.
After this operation, 45.2 MB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 245777 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../gimp-data_2.10.8-2_all.deb ...
Unpacking gimp-data (2.10.8-2) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp-data_2.10.8-2_all.deb (--unpack):
 unable to open '/usr/share/gimp/2.0/ui/plug-ins/plug-in-metadata-editor.ui.dpkg-new': Operation not permitted
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp-data_2.10.8-2_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

 root  …  cache  apt  archives  1  lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 19.04
Release: 19.04

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better.

I suspect you have a support issue, rather than a bug. You can also find help with your problem in the support forum of your local Ubuntu community http://loco.ubuntu.com/ or asking at https://askubuntu.com or https://ubuntuforums.org, or for more support options please look at https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/community-support/709

I tested this on two boxes (both fully-updated 19.04, x86 & x86_64; the x86 didn't have a /usr/share/gimp/2.0/ folder) but didn't have an issue on either box.

Please execute the following command only once, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:

apport-collect 1843664

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.