[Bug 979477] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer installation popup and probable failure

[Nicole M. Taylor]

Launchpad bug #1607535 is fixed in the upstream ttf-mscorefonts-installer (v3.6) but at the time of this answer it hasn't been merged into Ubuntu's repositories.

Check on Launchpad whether version 3.6 was made available for your
Ubuntu release. If that's the case, just update the repository
information and your packages:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -f ttf-mscorefonts-installer
This tells Apt to
install or upgrade ttf-mscorefonts-installer to the newest available version,
upgrade all packages that can be replaced trivially by a new version, and
try to fix all inconsistent packages in the process (-f).
If version 3.6 is not available for your Ubuntu release you can download the Debian package and install it with Software Center or on the command-line

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Title:
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer installation popup and probable failure

Status in update-notifier package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Recently we see the following when ttf-mscorefonts-installer is
  installed, after accepting licensing terms, a popup appears with the
  following contents:

  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
   .
   .
   The download will be attempted again later, or you can try the download
   again now.  Running this command requires an active Internet connection.

  It happens repeatedly if you do  apt-get install --reinstall ttf-
  mscorefonts-installer.

  Something is wrong in the move of the download from
  /usr/lib/msttcorefonts/update-ms-fonts to wherever it is supposed to
  live now.

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