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  1. Xenial (16.04)
  2. Bug #1522675
  3. Comment #44

Comment 44 for bug 1522675

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Morgan Grobin (morgangrobin) wrote : Re: Can't drop privileges for downloading : _apt user not allowed

I got this bug trying to download the linux source, fixed it with the following line (which was posted in this bug's duplicate thread):

sudo chown _apt /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/