Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 08:30:16AM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Marc Shapiro <marcns...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I also don't understand why it says that it could not create temporary >>> files in /tmp. I am running this as root and /tmp is owned by root. >>> What am I missing? >> >> /tmp (and /var/tmp/) should have the following permissions and rights: >> >> root:root 1777/drwxrwxrwt >> >> apt runs its I/O processes as a different user "_apt" and if /tmp does >> not have the sticky bit set, then it cannot create any files there, >> causing the error.
> To be completely clear, it's the world-write bit that allows _apt to > create files/subdirectories there. The sticky bit prevents other > users from removing or renaming said files/subdirectories while _apt > is using them. Eh, yes, of course. Was ahead in my thoughts and mixed both facts together. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
