[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Lesley Binks]

+1 to Vincent for posting this workaround.

I had already purges and installed the relevant files:

ttf-mscorefonts-installer cabextract libmspack0

a few times with no success.


So I figured I would run the final command Vincent suggested: 
 
sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer

So I purged and installed then dpkg-reconfigured fine.

I checked /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/ and the files are there.  
Some symbolic links in that directory carry the date of installation so people can check the dates on the symbolic links to verify Vincent's workaround has worked.

However, while Vincent's workaround successfully installs the mscorefonts,  the file: 
/var/lib/update-notifier/user.d/data-downloads-failed
which triggers the message everyone is seeing, remains.

This might be a bug between update-notifier interactions with the apt or
dpkg packages.  Not sure if it should be filed as such.

I'm going to remove that data-downloads-failed file and see if anything
breaks.

Hope this helps people

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Title:
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts
  and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

Status in msttcorefonts package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  As noted in
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts/+bug/1371783/comments/45,
  the current 3.4 version of ttf-mscorefonts-installer searches for the
  font files in an incorrect network location. The consequence of this
  is that the core fonts are never installed.

  The Debian (upstream) version 3.6 of ttf-mscorefonts-installer
  searches for the font files in the correct network location, and will
  successfully install the core fonts.

  This problem occurs with Ubuntu 16.04 as of July 2016. (And with
  earlier versions, including current LTS.)

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