Hi. On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 09:07:07AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > As I said, there has been no previous problem with Synaptic. > Where would I look for cause of missing archives sub-directory? Unless you have an audit facility configured in your kernel - you have to guess. > Is it safe to blindly create it? Yep. 0:0 as group:owner, 0755 as permission. $ ls -ald /var/cache/apt/archives/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 11 12:00 /var/cache/apt/archives/ Reco