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Troubles using apt-get install with home on NFS share

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Mar 15, 20264146 views
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I am trying to install a bunch of packages using apt-get install on a VM running Debian 5.0.9 (Lenny). What makes this endeavor frustrating and difficult is the fact that my home directory on this machine is in fact a mounted NFS share. My local user is in the VM's sudoers file, and I can start ins…

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Fix for: Troubles using apt-get install with home on NFS share

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This is a bug that has been fixed in dpkg 1.10.21 (i.e. instead of dying with a fatal error a warning is emitted, since this configuration file is optional). If you can't fix the permission error, upgrading dpkg should mitigate the issue. Since you'…

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