Install failed when .deb file was in my personal Downloads directory

[terrillmoore]

System: ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Cricket version: 2.6.1
Test system: MCCI-ci02

Process:

1. Download .tar.gz to ~/Downloads.
2. Untar the file to ~/Downloads/Cricket_2.6.1_all.deb
3. cd ~/Downloads
4. Launch install using sudo apt-get install ./Cricket_2.6.1_all.deb

Results

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'cricket' instead of './Cricket_2.6.1_all.deb'
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  cricket
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/104 MB of archives.
After this operation, 107 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 /home/tmm/Downloads/Cricket_2.6.1_all.deb cricket all 2.6.1 [104 MB]
Selecting previously unselected package cricket.
(Reading database ... 190277 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../Cricket_2.6.1_all.deb ...
Unpacking cricket (2.6.1) ...
Setting up cricket (2.6.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.26-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.70+nmu1ubuntu1) ...
N: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file '/home/tmm/Downloads/Cricket_2.6.1_all.deb' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)

The failure is at the end. I uninstalled, and then moved the .deb to /tmp, and things worked properly. I assume this is because user _apt doesn't have permissions to read into my home directory (as common on Ubuntu, permissions on home directory are 750 (no world access).