(ve):Configure apt

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Overview

On the (ve) Server, /tmp and /var/tmp are mounted as noexec for security reasons. This, however, can cause some issues with legitimate applications using /tmp as a "temporary" directory to run scripts that do some arbitrary action such as pre install scripts for apt-get/aptitude.

Requirements

You'll need to run the following command as root to have permissions to write to the apt configuration directory.

Instructions

To configure this application to not use /tmp, the following one-liner should configure it to use /var/local/tmp instead. 

echo "APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir \"/var/local/tmp\";" | tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50extracttemplates && mkdir /var/local/tmp/

Thanks to this blog post for the setup.

Notes/Supplemental

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