# Permisions errors with "./launcher rebuild app" on fresh install

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/permisions-errors-with-launcher-rebuild-app-on-fresh-install/382462
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [September 12, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permisions-errors-with-launcher-rebuild-app-on-fresh-install/382462 "2025-09-12T19:14:38Z")
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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/permisions-errors-with-launcher-rebuild-app-on-fresh-install/382462/3 "2025-09-12T21:58:49Z")

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> [@uckelman](#):
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> It’s not clear to me why this is the case.

Because in Discourse those files are owned by root (or the parent directory is?).

> [@uckelman](#):
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> (This is on Fedora 42.)

~~Perhaps it’s set by default in Ubuntu.~~ I don’t know what might be different in Ubuntu.

You could try setting `/var/discourse/shared` to world writable and see if it works? Or maybe you could see if it works without ``–privileged` now?

> [@uckelman](#):
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> I’d love to understand what’s happening here.

Ubuntu is what’s recommended and Debian is what is inside the container (and may now be what CDCK uses for their host OS?). Fedora has a bunch of stuff locked down that Ubuntu doesn’t. If you’d love to understand, you’re likely to be largely on your own, though I think I remember at least one person here with some frequency likes ~~Fedora~~ CentOS (which is closer to Fedora than Ubuntu is!). This might have clues: [MKJ's Opinionated Discourse Deployment Configuration](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mkjs-opinionated-discourse-deployment-configuration/193355)

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