[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Jeremy Bicha]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1651923 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1651923

Good questions. If you choose to keep 3.6 installed for now, I would
subscribe to https://launchpad.net/bugs/1651923

When that bug is marked **Fix Released** and the update is applied to
your computer (it may be a week later), I would then re-install the
Ubuntu version of this package.

To re-install the Ubuntu version, you can run this from the command
line:

sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer/xenial

(Of course, use yakkety instead of xenial if you are using Ubuntu
16.10).

I don't know about stopping the install prompts.

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Title:
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

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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