[Bug 1656451] Re: msttcorefonts installer unable to download Andale font

[Przemysław Kulczycki]

I can download the file using Firefox, so something is wrong with the
installer's scripts.

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Title:
  msttcorefonts installer unable to download Andale font

Status in msttcorefonts package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  azrael at leetbook:~$ LANG=C sudo apt reinstall ttf-mscorefonts-installer
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
    linux-headers-4.4.0-53 linux-headers-4.4.0-53-generic
    linux-image-4.4.0-53-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-53-generic
    linux-signed-image-4.4.0-53-generic
  Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 5 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 ... 262780 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) ...

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-57.78-generic 4.4.35
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-57-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.4
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sat Jan 14 00:22:31 2017
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-08-08 (158 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: msttcorefonts
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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