Source: petsc Version: 3.6.2.dfsg1-2 Severity: important The file /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/petsc is not readable by a non-root user, thereby causing update-alternatives to fail:
$ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/petsc -rw------- 1 root root 1792 Oct 22 18:28 /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/petsc $ update-alternatives --display petsc update-alternatives: error: unable to open file '/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/petsc': Permission denied and even the following command not related to petsc fails because of this: $ update-alternatives --get-selections update-alternatives: error: unable to open file '/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/petsc': Permission denied Best regards Torquil Macdonald Sørensen -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- debian-science-maintainers mailing list debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers
