Comment 15 for bug 438266

I still get this error, after I use the "sudo" command on files related to APT. I noticed that the behavior of sudo in karmic always defaults to access o-rwx ---and that defeats the purpose of installing system-wide software using sudo, among other things.

*For example, running the following line in the terminal

   sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

causes the medibuntu.list to be saved with access mode 640. If I then run the command "sudo apt-get update", gdebi-gtk cannot be used after that ---and the update-manager complains that it cannot access either /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list or /var/lib/synaptic/preferences.

*Also, the command "sudo update-mime-packages /usr/share/mime" changes the access modes for the mime-types lists, and after that nautilus assigns text/plain to all the files shown.

...$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10

...$ uname -srvmo
Linux 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:05:01 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

...$ apt-cache policy gdebi sudo
gdebi:
  Installed: 0.5.9
  Candidate: 0.5.9
  Version table:
 *** 0.5.9 0
        500 http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
sudo:
  Installed: 1.7.0-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1.7.0-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1.7.0-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status