[Bug 1222654] Re: package ttf-mscorefonts-installer fails to install/upgrade, left in a half configured state

[Nanko Verwaal]

I had the same problem on Ubuntu 14.04.01 LTS (incl. KDE).

I tried all three of Margaritas methods, but neither of them worked.

Then I completely removed the package from the system:
   sudo apt-get remove --purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer
and big surprise when I logged in again: -> The light bulb with the message was still there!

I found out that update-notifier is monitoring the contents of /var/lib/update-notifier/ and that the following file contains exactly the error message, update-notifier is complaining about:
    /var/lib/update-notifier/user.d/data-downloads-failed-permanently

My solution:

1.   sudo mv  /var/lib/update-notifier/user.d/data-downloads-failed-permanently /tmp/
2.   login again and see whether you still have a bulb message
3.   if you had removed the fonts package, install it again from a terminal window (don't use any GUI package installer, since they might conflict with the license agreement agreement dialog that comes with the package)

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Title:
  package ttf-mscorefonts-installer fails to install/upgrade, left in a
  half configured state

Status in “msttcorefonts” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  There are many bugs which are very similar, although the exact details
  of version and error message might change, in the end they all boil
  down to ttf-mscorefonts-installer being in a broken state from which
  it's hard to recover.

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer needs to be made more reliable so that a
  failure to accept the license doesn't cause a very-hard-to-recover-
  from situation.

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