msttcorefonts problem

[squareyes]

ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 10:18 +1030, squareyes wrote:
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>>Hi all,
>>tried to install msttcorefonts with Synaptic, failed to install
>>properly, now everything I install ends up going to sourceforge,
>>and trying to re-install msttcorefonts, which do not install properly
>>when installed application is being configured.
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>(Sorry about the other "empty" mail.)
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Hi Ziyah, no problems, matches my head most of the time :-)

>Do you by any chance connect to the web using a proxy?  The package
>"msttcorefonts" needs to download the actual fonts from
><sourceforge.net> due to some license restrictions implied by Microsoft.
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I wasn't having any problems downloading from Sourceforge.net,
just wouldn't unpack and configure. "No Cabinet available" or similar
message. Then any other package I tried to install would not unpack 
/configure,
kept going back to Sourceforge and re-downloading msttcorefonts.
Did  sudo dpkg --configure -a  and everything that had not unpacked and 
configured
did so.

>If so, install that package from a terminal like this: (In the following
>change "proxy.isp.net:66666" to your real proxy address and port.)
>        export http_proxy=http://proxy.isp.net:66666
>        sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
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>I hope this helps you.
>Ziyad.
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Thanks Ziyad,
Take Care
Winton

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