You've got broken permissions in your home dir. Try 'sudo chown neil:neil ~/.local' to fix it.
** Changed in: alacarte (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected -- alacarte crashed when checking boxes ([apport] alacarte crashed with OSError in makedirs()) https://launchpad.net/bugs/93297 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs