Comment 32 for bug 462419

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote :

At this time AppArmor does not support per-user profiles, but this is a desired feature. If there are bugs in the profile (gmplayer was mentioned), these bugs need to be filed in Launchpad so that they can be corrected. Since this bug was not already reported, I have done so in bug #591421 and already committed a fix for it.

Adrian et al, the philosophy behind apparmor profiles in Ubuntu is to have the profiles just work in default and common configurations and not have the user have to worry about them generally. As mentioned, if there are specific examples of things that should be added to the profile, please file a bug so a developer can fix it.

Adrian, removing the apparmor package is not recommended. There are many profiles protecting you system that are not causing you any trouble. If the evince profile is causing you problems, then you may simply disable it by performing:
$ sudo touch /etc/apparmor.d/disable/usr.bin.evince