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and subject line Bug #281498 and others: `%s' in aptitude permission denied
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regarding Bad error message when running aptitude as non-root
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281498: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=281498
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Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.1-1
Severity: normal
If you run aptitude without being root, you see
"E: /home/gpk/.aptitude/config - Unable to open %s for writing (13 Permission
denied)"
The "%s" clearly is supposed to be a substitution, but someone
forgot to supply the file name to substitute in.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.1 0.6.43.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-5 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.16-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 0.6.4-1
Not sure when these errors were fixed, but they seem to have been for
a while. They all relate to `%s' not being replaced with a filename
in permission denied messages.
>From #281498:
> due to using sudo, ~/.aptitude was not readable when I ran this
> command as myself:
>
> ~$ aptitude show vpnc
> E: /home/adrian/.aptitude/config - Unable to open %s for writing (13
> Permission denied)
> Package: vpnc
> State: installed
> ....
Now:
~$ ls -ld .aptitude
dr-x--x--x 2 root root 4096 Nov 30 23:49 .aptitude
~$ aptitude show vpnc
E: Unable to open /home/daniel/.aptitude/config for writing - apt_init
(13: Permission denied)
Package: vpnc
...
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