[Bug 1371783] Re: package ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 (utopic) fails to install/upgrade

[John Freed]

After some further investigating, I have some more information.

-- Comment #14 does indeed complete the installation but does not silence the popup. The similar method in Comment #26 does silence the popup.
-- It is right to be concerned that the font files could be corrupted, because they are hosted on SourceForge, which recently decided to wrap sleazeware around others' software (even though this is specifically prohibited in the fonts' EULA). See http://www.infoworld.com/article/2929732/open-source-software/sourceforge-commits-reputational-suicide.html 
-- It might be best for someone else (GitHub? Ubuntu?) to host these files to make sure SourceForge doesn't corrupt them. It is possible that this (or the SourceForge "cookies" popup) is the root cause of this problem, though I have not pursued that. Also, I am often routed to the NetAssist mirror, which appears to have been taken down (it's online but empty).
-- In any case, the Ubuntu installer does verify the SHA256 hashes AFTER the download.

So this method should work (riffing off comments #14 and #26, along with
a solution offered in http://askubuntu.com/questions/317765/how-do-i
-stop-failure-to-download-extra-data-files-error-with-pepflashpluginin)
...

cd /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial
grep Url: /usr/share/package-data-downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer | awk '{print $2}' | sudo xargs -n 1 'wget'
cd -
sudo /usr/lib/msttcorefonts/update-ms-fonts /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/*
sudo rm -f /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/*
sudo mv /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer.FAILED /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer

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Title:
  package ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 (utopic) fails to
  install/upgrade

Status in msttcorefonts package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I've been trying to upgrade/update 'ttf-mscorefonts-installer' for the
  past week, but the install/upgrade fails with  a 'andale32.exe Hash
  Sum mismatch" error:

  <SNIP>

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Fetched 552 B in 11s (47 B/s)

  E: Failed to fetch
  http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe  Hash Sum
  mismatch

  E: Download Failed
  Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ...

  <SNIP>

  'lsb_release -rd':
  Description:	Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn (development branch)
  Release:	14.10

  apt-cache policy ttf-mscorefonts-installer
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer:
    Installed: 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2
    Candidate: 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2
    Version table:
   *** 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 0
          500 http://mirror.hmc.edu/ubuntu/ utopic/multiverse i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  I expect it to complete the install/upgrade, but it constantly chokes
  on 'andale32.exe', and generates a notification after each boot.

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