Marc Shapiro <marcns...@gmail.com> wrote: > I also don't understand why it says that it could not create temporary > files in /tmp. I am running this as root and /tmp is owned by root. > What am I missing?
/tmp (and /var/tmp/) should have the following permissions and rights: root:root 1777/drwxrwxrwt apt runs its I/O processes as a different user "_apt" and if /tmp does not have the sticky bit set, then it cannot create any files there, causing the error. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
