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  • Re: unable to save to usb drives from chrome

    From Charles Curley@21:1/5 to Semih Ozlem on Tue Oct 29 14:20:01 2024
    On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 10:05:44 +0300
    Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com> wrote:

    I switched to Debian 12 bookworm recently,

    Did you do a new installation or dist-upgrade to make the change?

    and I am no longer able to save or download files to usb drives from
    chrome or browsers, I get the message Need permission to download.
    This did not use to be the case when I was using Debian 11. What can
    I do to change this?

    Can you copy files to the USB drives manually, e.g. using cp at the
    command line?

    I would check permissions and ownerships of the directories in and
    above the USB devices. Especially, check the mount permissions.

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  • From George at Clug@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 29 22:50:01 2024
    On Wednesday, 30-10-2024 at 05:52 Jeffrey Walton wrote:
    On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 12:46 PM Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 29/10/2024 20:14, Charles Curley wrote:
    On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 10:05:44 +0300 Semih Ozlem wrote:
    and I am no longer able to save or download files to usb drives from
    chrome or browsers, I get the message Need permission to download.
    [...]
    Can you copy files to the USB drives manually, e.g. using cp at the command line?

    I would check permissions and ownerships of the directories in and
    above the USB devices. Especially, check the mount permissions.

    Are USB drives mounted by the same user? In bookworm udisks (used by
    GUI) restricts access by default to the user who requested mount.

    In the case of snap or flatpak sandboxing it may be a different kind of permissions. Check desktop environment settings for application permissions.

    I hope Snap is not making its way into Debian. Or Snap is optional in
    Debian, and not required.

    +1

    George.



    Some years ago I noticed that Firefox from snap (Ubuntu) could not
    access files from /usr/share/doc. Perhaps it was aimed to prevent
    stealing some data (while making home directory available).

    Yep, this is one of the problems with Snap. I've never had the problem
    when using .deb packages.

    Jeff



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  • From Greg Wooledge@21:1/5 to Max Nikulin on Wed Oct 30 03:30:01 2024
    On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 09:12:49 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
    apt policy snap
    snap:
    Installed: (none)
    Candidate: 2013-11-29-11
    Version table:
    2013-11-29-11 500
    500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages
    100 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie/main amd64 Packages

    In the case of namely Chrome, I believe, it is quite probable that it may be installed as a flatpak or snap package.

    Google supplies Chrome as a Debian package, in a private repository.
    It doesn't use snap or flatpak.

    hobbit:~$ apt policy google-chrome-stable
    google-chrome-stable:
    Installed: 130.0.6723.69-1
    Candidate: 130.0.6723.69-1
    Version table:
    *** 130.0.6723.69-1 500
    500 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable/main amd64 Packages
    100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

    hobbit:~$ dpkg -s google-chrome-stable | grep Depends
    Depends: ca-certificates, fonts-liberation, libasound2 (>= 1.0.17), libatk-bridge2.0-0 (>= 2.5.3), libatk1.0-0 (>= 2.11.90), libatspi2.0-0 (>= 2.9.90), libc6 (>= 2.17), libcairo2 (>= 1.6.0), libcups2 (>= 1.7.0), libcurl3-gnutls | libcurl3-nss | libcurl4 |
    libcurl3, libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.75), libexpat1 (>= 2.1~beta3), libgbm1 (>= 17.1.0~rc2), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.39.4), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.9.10) | libgtk-4-1, libnspr4 (>= 2:4.9-2~), libnss3 (>= 2:3.35), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libudev1 (>
    = 183), libvulkan1, libx11-6 (>= 2:1.4.99.1), libxcb1 (>= 1.9.2), libxcomposite1 (>= 1:0.4.4-1), libxdamage1 (>= 1:1.1), libxext6, libxfixes3, libxkbcommon0 (>= 0.5.0), libxrandr2, wget, xdg-utils (>= 1.0.2)
    Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.14.0)

    Google may be guilty of many sins, but providing a package that uses
    snap or flatpak isn't one of them. At least, not in this case.

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  • From Will Mengarini@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 30 05:50:01 2024
    * Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com> [24-10/29=Tue 10:05 +0300]:
    I switched to Debian 12 bookworm recently, and I am no longer able
    to save or download files to usb drives from chrome or browsers, I
    get the message Need permission to download. This did not use to be
    the case when I was using Debian 11. What can I do to change this?

    Check that your username is a member of the plugdev group.

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