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    This is interesting

    Just ran an update and dist-upgrade. One package available to upgrade: flashplugin-installer

    The updated package was retrieved and installed, but there was a warning that user _apt couldn't access the downloaded file -- Permission denied. Whaaaa?

    paul@paul-VirtualBox:~$ distupgradeReading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    Calculating upgrade... Done
    The following packages will be upgraded:
    flashplugin-installer
    1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    Need to get 6,784 B of archives.
    After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
    Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
    Get:1 http://mirror.steadfast.net/ubuntu xenial-updates/multiverse amd64 flashplugin-installer amd64 11.2.202.637ubuntu0.16.04.1 [6,784 B]
    Fetched 6,784 B in 0s (63.3 kB/s)
    Preconfiguring packages ...
    (Reading database ... 238320 files and directories currently installed.)
    Preparing to unpack .../flashplugin-installer_11.2.202.637ubuntu0.16.04.1_amd64.deb ...
    Unpacking flashplugin-installer (11.2.202.637ubuntu0.16.04.1) over (11.2.202.635ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...
    Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.168.1) ...
    flashplugin-installer: downloading http://archive.canonical.com/pool/pa....1.orig.tar.gz
    Get:1 http://archive.canonical.com/pool/pa....1.orig.tar.gz [27.2 MB]
    Fetched 27.2 MB in 10s (2,500 kB/s)
    W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/adobe-flashplugin_20161011.1.orig.tar.gz' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
    Installing from local file /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/adobe-flashplugin_20161011.1.orig.tar.gz
    Flash Plugin installed.
    Setting up flashplugin-installer (11.2.202.637ubuntu0.16.04.1) ...
    paul@paul-VirtualBox:~$

    I've never seen this before. Why would user _apt be denied access to the file that apt itself downloaded? Is this a bug?
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    #2
    Many bug reports on this going back to January, but it seems sporadic and unpredictable, and afaik not fixed
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      #3
      I get it occasionally, but everything seems to install ok, so I've never looked into it further than that.
      On #kubuntu-devel & #kubuntu on libera.chat - IRC Nick: RikMills - Launchpad ID: click
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        #4
        No problem when I upgraded it this afternoon.

        EDIT:
        That was yesterday. At 11:30 CST, 11-13-16, I got the following error while doing an upgrade:
        ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...
        ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
        Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe [198 kB]
        Fetched 198 kB in 1s (161 kB/s)
        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)
        ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe
        Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe [554 kB]
        Fetched 554 kB in 1s (360 kB/s)
        W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/arial32.exe' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
        Last edited by GreyGeek; Oct 13, 2016, 10:29 PM.
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          #5
          Hi,
          I don't mean to resurrect an old thread, but I think this is relevant and the thread isn't too old.
          Anyway, I've been getting something similar to you guys.
          A popup that says. "Failure to download extra data files. the following packages requested additional data downloads after package installation, but the data could not be downloaded or could not be processed.. ttf-mscorefonts-installer .. The download will be attempted again later, or you can try the download again now. Running this command requires an active internet connection."

          when I click "Run this action now" I get this console output:
          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
          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)
          E: Failed to fetch https://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe 404 Not Found

          E: Download Failed

          I installed Wine yesterday maybe that is why it's trying to download mscorefonts.

          Anyone figure this out yet?

          Thanks,
          Ben
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