ttf-mscorefonts-installer

[Mark Fraser]

On 11/02/18 16:10, Dale Trombley wrote:
> 
> Fresh installed kubuntu 18.04 dev, have had this ever since, 
> notification in the taskbar for "failure to download update data files". 
> When i click to run it, it gives this:
> 
> ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...
> ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading 
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
> Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
>   Redirection from https to 
> 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=superb-dca2.dl.sourceforge.net' 
> is forbidden [IP: 209.61.193.20 443]
> E: Failed to fetch 
> https://superb-dca2.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the 
> fonts/final/andale32.exe  Redirection from https to 
> 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=superb-dc
> a2.dl.sourceforge.net <http://a2.dl.sourceforge.net>' is forbidden [IP: 
> 209.61.193.20 443]
> E: Download Failed

Take a look at this on Launchpad 
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/404484

You need to install ttf-mscorefonts-installer >=3.6.

I'm pretty sure there's a bug on Launchpad too.