ongoing problem with ttf-mscorefonts-installer

[Peter Silva]

What is the difference between the two machines?


On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 7:29 AM, Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:
> For several weeks now, I've been getting stuff like this in the
> cron.daily output on one machine (but not another) running 16.04.
>
> /etc/cron.daily/update-notifier-common:
> 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://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe  404  Not Found
>
> E: Download Failed
> ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
> ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...
>
> I also get a related error whenever I do `sudo apt-get dist-upgrade`.
> Any ideas on how to fix this?
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
>
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