Ubuntu
pepperflashplugin-nonfree package

installation of pepperflashplugin-nonfree fails due to "W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file './var/lib/apt/lists/partial/dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_InRelease' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)"

Bug #1556230 reported by Karl-Philipp Richter on 2016-03-11

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1527426: Merge pepperflashplugin-nonfree (1.8.2) from Debian unstable (contrib). Edit Remove

This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

`dpkg` output is

    pepperflashplugin-nonfree (1.7ubuntu1) wird eingerichtet ...
    ERROR: failed to retrieve status information from google : W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file './var/lib/apt/lists/partial/dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_InRelease' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Keine Berechtigung)
    More information might be available at:
      http://wiki.debian.org/PepperFlashPlayer

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: pepperflashplugin-nonfree 1.7ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 4.4.4-040404-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: openafs
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Mar 11 19:16:00 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-17 (875 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
SourcePackage: pepperflashplugin-nonfree
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-03-04 (6 days ago)

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Karl-Philipp Richter (krichter722) wrote on 2016-03-11:

Dependencies.txt Edit (4.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
JournalErrors.txt Edit (125.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (112 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2016-03-23:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in pepperflashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Sean Davis (bluesabre) wrote on 2016-03-26:

Also affects new installations of Xubuntu 16.04 (non-upgrade)

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Mikhail Novosyolov (mikhailnov) wrote on 2016-03-29:

Also affected by this.

user@Ubuntu-Aspire-5742G:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure pepperflashplugin-nonfreeERROR: failed to retrieve status information from google : W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file './var/lib/apt/lists/partial/dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_InRelease' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Отказано в доступе)
W: http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/Release.gpg: Signature by key 4CCA1EAF950CEE4AB83976DCA040830F7FAC5991 uses weak digest algorithm (SHA1)
More information might be available at:
http://wiki.debian.org/PepperFlashPlayer