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couldn’t be accessed by user ‘_apt’. – pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)

To solve couldn’t be accessed by user ‘_apt’. – pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied) this error then use any of the below commands. It is one of the known issues while installing some packages.

Run :

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

If the above command doesn’t solve your issue then try:

sudo chmod -Rv 700 /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/
sudo chown -Rv _apt:root /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/

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