[Bug 1649203] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer always complains about cannot download data because http is not support by libcurl?

[Nathanaël Naeri]

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

Did you upgrade apt-transport-https? The fix is in this binary package,
not in the apt binary package (both being compiled from the same source
package named apt, yes it is confusing). See bug 1651923 comments 39 to
45.

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Title:
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer always complains about cannot download data
  because http is not support by libcurl?

Status in msttcorefonts package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I always get this:

  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
    Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl
  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://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe  Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl

  E: Download Failed

  Moveover it's quite annoying that I got a window time from time to try
  to download but always fails and window remains ... (surely it can be
  closed manually till the next update)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-53.74-generic 4.4.30
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-53-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Dec 12 08:04:54 2016
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-07-10 (520 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release i386 (20150422)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: msttcorefonts
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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