[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

That particular error ("The HTTP server sent an invalid Content-Range
header"), contrary to the previous one ("Protocol "http" not supported
or disabled in libcurl"), has a different cause than apt-transport-https
being v < 1.2.19. It is due to Sourceforge not answering correctly to a
request for partial download on a redirect, when the file has already
been partially downloaded (if I understand correctly). See bug 1651923,
comments 45 47 50.

That Content-Range issue with partial downloads on Sourceforge was fixed
in bug 1657567 a few days ago, but the fix might only land in the next
release of Ubuntu, it might not be backported to the current releases.

>From what I understand you can solve this issue by deleting the partial
downloads in /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/,
and trying again. But I'm not 100% sure. If not perhaps try sudo apt-get
purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer?

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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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