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  1. Bug #1543280
  2. Comment #48

Comment 48 for bug 1543280

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Aris (aris-p) wrote :

I had this error message a few times in a fresh Ubuntu-MATE 16.10

Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/root/.synaptic/tmp//tmp_sh' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission non accordée)

aris@LinuxBox:~$ sudo ls -dl /root/.synaptic/tmp//tmp_sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 196069 avril 5 17:25 /root/.synaptic/tmp//tmp_sh

User _apt exist but root own this directory

Is this the problem ?

Can we solve it by a `chown` command like this ?

chown _apt /root/.synaptic/tmp//tmp_sh