ongoing problem with ttf-mscorefonts-installer

[Adam Funk]

On 2016-12-12, Peter Silva wrote:

> What is the difference between the two machines?

I think I installed ttf-mscorefonts-installer a week apart on the two
machines, but that was quite a while ago, before this started
happening.


>
> 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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