the package is currently broken. /etc/orthanc is owned by root, but orthanc tries to create OrthancStorage in there, which fails since it's already running as the unprivileged user. This can be changed in Resources/Configuration.json AFAIU. This should be moved to /var anyways, /etc is not the right place for this While you're at it you can enable hardenings in the systemd unit like PrivateTmp=true ProtectSystem=strict ProtectHome=true ProtectKernelModules=true ProtectKernelTunables=true ProtectControlGroups=true MountFlags=private NoNewPrivileges=true PrivateDevices=true MemoryDenyWriteExecute=true that shouldn't be an issue with this type of service