*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1522675 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1522675
The fix with the _apt user worked, kind of, but the fonts seem to be unavailable now. Could that be the reason for the error messages? Failed download: sudo apt-get install --reinstall ttf-mscorefonts-installer Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libosmesa6 libwine Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following NEW packages will be installed: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 37 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/29,5 kB of archives. After this operation, 134 kB of additional disk space will be used. Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package ttf-mscorefonts-installer. (Reading database ... 263501 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.4+nmu1ubuntu2_all.deb ... Unpacking ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.175) ... ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing... ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe 404 Not Found E: Failed to fetch https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the?download&failedmirror=freefr.dl.sourceforge.net 404 Not Found E: Download Failed Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.11.94-0ubuntu2) ... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1543280 Title: Synaptic fails with "W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/root/.synaptic/tmp//tmp_sh' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptitude/+bug/1543280/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs