recurring ttf-mscorefonts-installer popup - andale32.exe not found

Bug #1658443 reported by Sebastian Wiesendahl
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
update-notifier (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

since a week or so the update-notfier is complaining that the download of additional files has failed:

```lang=en
# Update information

Failure to download extra data files

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 download will be attempted again later, or you can try the download again now. Running this command requires an active Internet connection.

```

```lang=de
# Hinweise zur Aktualisierung

Herunterladen von zusätzlichen Datendateien schlug fehl

Die folgenden Pakete benötigen nach der Installation das Herunterladen zusätzlicher Daten, welche aber nicht heruntergeladen oder bearbeitet werden konnten.

ttf-mscorefonts-installer

Das Herunterladen wird später erneut versucht, oder Sie versuchen es jetzt gleich nochmal. Das Ausführen dieses Befehls benötigt eine aktive Internetverbindung.
```

This bug seems similar to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/979477

where it was considered to look up the following:

```sh
$ sudo /usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
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://vorboss.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe 404 Not Found

E: Download Failed
```

And here is a workaround proposed by "Kätzchen", but seems to be of static nature and may break things:

https://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/update-probleme-mit-ttf-mscorefonts-installer/

```sh
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/m/msttcorefonts/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb
```

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: update-notifier 3.168.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-59.80-generic 4.4.35
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-59-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Jan 22 10:16:03 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-08-31 (143 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
SourcePackage: update-notifier
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Sebastian Wiesendahl (swiesend) wrote :
description: updated
description: updated
description: updated
description: updated
summary: - ttf-mscorefonts-installer popup - andale32.exe not found
+ recurring ttf-mscorefonts-installer popup - andale32.exe not found
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in update-notifier (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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