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

[Nathanaël Naeri]

Sigh. Your first two downloads worked though, the third one failed. You
should report this on bug 1651923, Julian Klode might be able to help.
The error message you get now, "Protocol http not supported or disabled
in libcurl", is symptomatic of the same bug 1607535/1651923 I suggested
as a duplicate, just like the error "404 Not Found". The error message
depends on the contacted mirror.

In particular, see Elvis Stansvik's comment 25 in bug 1651923: he got
the same error message as you from the vorboss.dl.sourceforge.net mirror
even after he upgraded apt-transport-https to 1.2.19.

You can use apt-helper for tests instead of reinstalling ttf-
mscorefonts-installer over and over again (line breaks for readability
only):

$ /usr/lib/apt/apt-helper
    [-o debug::acquire::https=1 -o debug::acquire::http=1]
    download-file
    http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe test.exe
    OR
    "https://people.debian.org/~jak/a b/c" test.exe

The optional part is for debug output.

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Title:
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer fails to download fonts

Status in msttcorefonts package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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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