[Bug 1658482] Re: Installer unable to download core fonts

[Nathanaël Naeri (Naël)]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1607535 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1607535

** Changed in: msttcorefonts (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  Installer unable to download core fonts

Status in msttcorefonts package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  I received the following notification:

  
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  Data files for some packages could not be downloaded

  The following packages requested additional data downloads after
  package installation, but the data could not be downloaded or could
  not be processed.

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer

  This is a permanent failure that leaves these packages unusable on your system.  You may need to fix your Internet connection, then remove and reinstall the packages to fix this problem.
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  This appears to be a long standing bug, a number of proposed workarounds are discussed in the following thread:

  http://askubuntu.com/questions/153928/failure-to-download-extra-data-
  files-after-installing-ttf-mscorefonts-installe

  
  I attempted to correct the issue with the following command

  
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  sudo apt-get install --reinstall ttf-mscorefonts-installer

  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  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 ... 266331 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://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe  404  Not Found

  E: Download Failed
  Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ...
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  ls -lha /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/

  total 552K
  drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jan 22 09:04 .
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Jan 22 09:04 ..
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 542K Aug 15  2002 arial32.exe
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  Next, I tried removing the file arial32.exe from the partial directory, and issued the reinstall command again. I had slightly different, but similar results.

  
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  sudo apt-get install --reinstall ttf-mscorefonts-installer  

  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  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 ... 266331 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
  Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe [198 kB]
  Fetched 198 kB in 0s (391 kB/s)                                                              
  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)
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe
  Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe [554 kB]
  Fetched 554 kB in 0s (988 kB/s)                                                             
  W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/arial32.exe' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arialb32.exe
  Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arialb32.exe
    404  Not Found
  W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/arialb32.exe' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
  E: Failed to fetch https://pilotfiber.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/arialb32.exe  404  Not Found

  E: Download Failed
  Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ...
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  ls -lha /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/

  total 748K
  drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jan 22 09:07 .
  drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Jan 22 09:07 ..
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 194K Aug 15  2002 andale32.exe
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 542K Aug 15  2002 arial32.exe
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