Ok, Thanks. Will definitely copy this into my personal command reference.
This will help solve a bunch of headaches until I can get Samba's teeth
un-clamped from my leg. Thanks again.

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 7:57 PM, Travisgevans <email address hidden>
wrote:

> The command is lowercase “chown”, without the “(1)”. The general syntax
> would be “chown <user name> <file or directory>”. You'll normally need
> superuser privileges to change owners on system files and directories,
> activated by adding the command “sudo” before the “chown” (separated by
> a space).
>
> The “(1)” refers to which section in the manual pages, or “manpages”,
> the command is described in. A common way to get help on a command is to
> run “man <command_name>”; for instance, you can execute “man chown” to
> get the manpage on the chown command. (To exit, type the letter q; more
> info here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/man) The manual pages are
> divided into numbered sections by categories. Occasionally, there is
> more than one manpage with the same name, and the section number has to
> be included in the “man” command to indicate which is desired (for
> instance, “man 1 printf” gives the page on the shell command “printf”,
> but “man 3 printf” gives the page on the “printf” library call for C
> programming).
>
> You can get a manpage on “man” itself with “man man” (or just read it
> online here:
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man1/man.1.html). Under
> “DESCRIPTION”, there's a list of the manpage sections and their numbers,
> if you're curious.
>
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> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1522675
>
> Title:
>   Warning messages about unsandboxed downloads
>
> Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
>   Fix Released
> Status in update-notifier package in Ubuntu:
>   Confirmed
> Status in apt package in Debian:
>   Fix Released
> Status in synaptic package in Debian:
>   New
>
> Bug description:
>   Recently we got new versions for synaptic 0.82+build1 & apt 1.1.3, but
>   now get that error when installing/upgrading some packages:
>
>   Setting up libc6-dbg:amd64 (2.21-0ubuntu5) ...
>   Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-0ubuntu5) ...
>   W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file
> '/root/.synaptic/tmp//tmp_cl' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. -
> pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
>
>   From nautilus, i'm seeing a /root/ folder locked (x on its icon) and
>   the folder is empty (no /.synaptic/ sub-folder or file), so the above
>   error.
>
>   oem@u64:~$ ls -l .synaptic
>   total 4
>   -rw-rw-r-- 1 oem oem   0 Aug 25 11:19 options
>   -rw-rw-r-- 1 oem oem 236 Aug 25 11:19 synaptic.conf
>
>   oem@u64:~$ ls -l /var/lib/apt/lists/
>   ....
>   -rw-r----- 1 root root        0 Sep 20 06:36 lock
>   drwx------ 2 _apt root    16384 Sep 24 15:25 partial
>   ......
>
>   oem@u64:~$ sudo ls -l /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/
>   .....
>   drwxr-xr-x 2 _apt root 4096 Sep 22 23:33 partial
>
>
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
>   Package: synaptic 0.82+build1
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.3.0-1.10-generic 4.3.0
>   Uname: Linux 4.3.0-1-generic x86_64
>   NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
>   ApportVersion: 2.19.2-0ubuntu8
>   Architecture: amd64
>   CurrentDesktop: GNOME
>   Date: Fri Dec  4 05:23:25 2015
>   SourcePackage: synaptic
>   UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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