*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1522675 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1522675
I can confirm the bug, Ubuntu 16.04.
I know that this is a duplicate of bug #1522675 (not related to synaptic
but to apt itself as noted before), but I think that we have two
different issues here.
The first is:
W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/update-
notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/andale32.exe' couldn't be
accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
This happens as the directory is not owned by _apt:
cat /etc/passwd | grep apt
_apt:x:105:65534::/nonexistent:/bin/false
ls -la /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 gen 8 17:50 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 gen 8 17:50 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 gen 8 17:50 partial
The manual workaround that worked for me and do no create a huge
security hole is:
chown _apt /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/
Hopefully https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=813786 will
fix the issue but can't say till it hit mainstream as I'm a standard
user with a LTS installation.
Anyway, and this is the seconde issue, ttf-mscorefonts-installer will
refuse to work anyway as ttf-mscorefonts-
installer_3.4+nmu1ubuntu2_all.deb is somehow broken getting a redirect
from Sourceforge:
curl -kis http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe | grep
"^Location: "
Location:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%20fonts/final/arial32.exe
That contains a space that will make the subsequent request:
E: Failed to fetch https://netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the
fonts/final/arial32.exe The HTTP server sent an invalid Content-Range header
E: Download Failed
Installing ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb from Debian fix the
issue so it really has to do with some scripting inside the package
(postinst?).
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #813786
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=813786
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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)"
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