[xubuntu-users] Receiving error message on updates

[Jack Fromm]

On 01/15/2017 11:41 AM, John R. Sowden wrote:
> I have been receiving this error message for about 2 weeks. It says:
> The following packages requested additional data downloads after 
> package installation, but the data could not be downloaded or could 
> not be processed.     ttf-mscorefonts-installer
>
> The data appears to be Microsoft brand fonds.  I use Linux (Xubuntu 
> 16.04).  I run Libra-office for a program that might use these fonts.  
> I do not use MS brand fonts, although my spreadsheets come up with 
> Arial, which I must change to FreeSans.
>
> When I "run this action now", it opens a terminal, asks for my root 
> password and appears to try to download files with a .exe file type.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> John
>
>
>
Try running the two commands in the last post of this thread:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/852302/failure-to-download-extra-data-files-ttf-mscorefonts-installer

Worked for me.
Jack
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