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

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 8:51 AM, mirohe <miguelrodriguezhernando at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Sorry, I wrote this wrong
>
> Url in debian package the url is:
>
> https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%
> 20fonts/final/andale32.exe
> -> OK
>
> and ubuntu package the url is like this:
>
> https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the
> fonts/final/andale32.exe  -> ERROR
>
> result ubuntu
>
> Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
>   404 Not Found
> E: Impossible de récupérer https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.
> net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe 404 Not Found
>
>
> The difference is:
> Debian package -> "....corefonts/the%20fonts/final...." OK
> Ubuntu package -> "....corefonts/the fonts/final...." ERROR
>
> "%20" no exist in ubuntu package and fail.
>
>
>
> This is one of the reasons I like to reduce things like this to a script.
Here's what I used:

#!/bin/bash
> # work around problems in ttf-mscorefonts-installer
>
> if [ $# -ne 1 ] ; then
>   echo " *** Error: $0 needs exactly one argument: the name of an empty
> directory where the fonts will go"
>   exit 1
> fi
> for font in andale32.exe arial32.exe arialb32.exe comic32.exe courie32.exe
> georgi32.exe impact32.exe times32.exe trebuc32.exe verdan32.exe
> webdin32.exe ; do
>   wget
> https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%20fonts/final/$font
> done
>
> sudo apt-get remove --purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer
> sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer
>


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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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