My apologies. I literally "hate" when I have to respond to myself as fast as I send an email. An important detail I left off is that this occurs for me while using apt-get.
And typo correction attached below where "directly" should have been "directory". *oops!* :) On 5/18/17, Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflyby...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/17/17, Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> wrote: >> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 11:36:50PM +0300, Geo Pe wrote: >>> Package: upgrade-reports >>> Severity: normal >>> >>> Dear Maintainer, >>> >>> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where >>> appropriate >>> *** >>> >>> * What led up to the situation? >>> I upgraded from stable to testing. Try to install/upgrade various >>> packages >>> >>> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or >>> ineffective)? >>> Tried to install netbeans. The problem is repeaded with other packages. >>> * What was the outcome of this action? >>> Netbeans was installed but i got the following message after >>> installation: >>> >>> "W: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file >>> '/var/cache/apt/archives/partial/libminizip1_1.1-8+b1_amd64.deb' >>> couldn't >>> be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)" >>> >>> * What outcome did you expect instead? >>> Message for successfull installation. >> >> Hello Geo Pe, >> This is not an error but a warning (W: mean warning). >> You should check the permission of >> /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/ >> >> Cheers, >> -- >> Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> >> >> Imagine a large red swirl here. > > > I've received that warning in the past. There obviously could be > multiple causes for seeing it. In my case and purely discovered by > accident, the warning occurred because I had symlinked to > '/var/cache/apt/archives which was on an external hard drive. > > No matter where the target '/var/cache/apt/archives/ was placed in a > data'esque hierarchy on that external hard drive, I still received > that error. Permissions *appeared* to be correct, but that also didn't > seem to make a difference. > > As a matter of record as long as the topic is here, that symlinking > also caused my debootstrap chroot user "root" to have an identity > crisis where it kept yelling, "I Have No Name!" > > As soon as I removed the symlink to '/var/cache/apt/archives/ and > moved files back in the primary hierarchy, debootstrap's chroot user > root found itself again as "root". If I'm remembering correctly, that > instance was ultimately traced back to my missing a similar > permissions denied warning early on in debootstrap. That warning > disappeared immediately upon removal of the package archives [directory] > symlink. > > Hope this some day helps somehow.. > > Cindy :) > > -- > Cindy-Sue Causey > Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA > > * runs with duct tape *