apt: packages that need to download other files do not work
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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msttcorefonts (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Packages that need to download and install other files, such as pepperflashplug
Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/
or
ERROR: failed to retrieve status information from google : W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file './var/
More information might be available at:
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Ubuntu version: 16.04
apt version: 1.2.3 (amd64)
I don't see how that's a bug in APT. That's a bug in the package. APT runs dpkg as root, so the package has access to everything.