ongoing problem with ttf-mscorefonts-installer

[Colin Law]

On 4 January 2017 at 11:46, Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:
> On 2016-12-12, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>
>> hi,
>> On Mo, 2016-12-12 at 12:29 +0000, Adam Funk 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.
>>>
>> Related bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1607535
>
> Is there a workaround for it, like manually downloading the file &
> sticking it in the right place?

Comment #40 in the bug says it provides a workaround.

Colin