[Bug 1655565] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer fails to download fonts

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After updating apt-transport-https by manual reinstalling (current version is differs from previous one, but has same version number 1.2.19) package ttf-mscorefonts-installer installed successfully, but it produce many warnings (for each font file):
W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/andale32.exe' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)

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Title:
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer fails to download fonts

Status in msttcorefonts package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  In Ubuntu Xenial I try to reinstall ttf-mscorefonts-installer but it
  fails to download first font (andale32.exe) because user _apt has no
  permissions to access /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-
  downloads/partial/

  # apt-get install --reinstall msttcorefonts
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  Note, selecting 'ttf-mscorefonts-installer' instead of 'msttcorefonts'
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 0 B/29,5 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
  Preconfiguring packages ...
  (Reading database ... 266330 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to unpack .../ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.4+nmu1ubuntu2_all.deb ...
  mscorefonts-eula license has already been accepted
  Unpacking ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) over (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ...
  Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.11.94-0ubuntu1.1) ...
  Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.168.3) ...
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
    404  Not Found
  W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/andale32.exe' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
  E: Failed to fetch https://vorboss.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe  404  Not Found

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

  $ ls -l /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/
  drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22 Jan 11 11:30 partial
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  0 Jan 11 11:30 ttf-mscorefonts-installer.failed

  $ grep _apt /etc/passwd
  _apt:x:125:65534::/nonexistent:/bin/false

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