Oracle Cloud Agent Installation Fails With Error"unpacking of archive failed on file <file name>"

Applies To:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 

Oracle Linux x86-64 

Symptoms 

Oracle Cloud Agent installation Fails on OCI Centos Instance with error: 

Transaction Summary 
Install 
1 Package 
Total size: 379 M 
Installed size: 379 M 
Downloading packages: 
Running transaction check 
Running transaction test 
Transaction test succeeded 
Running transaction 
Installing : oracle-cloud-agent-1.37.2-10459.el7x86_64 
Error unpacking rpm package oracle-cloud-agent-1.37.2-10459.el7.x86_64 
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /var/log/oracle-cloud-agent: cpio: mkdir 
Verifying 
: oracle-cloud-agent-1.37.2-10459.el7.x86_64 
Failed: 
oracle-cloud-agent.x86_64 0:1.37.2-10459.el7 

Changes

 Oracle Cloud Agent is being manually installed from a downloaded rpm  

Cause

The /var/log directory is owned by the root user and only root can modify it.