package msttcorefonts 2.5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Rhaego]

Binary package hint: msttcorefonts

Got this error while installing Quanta+ on Ubuntu 8.10.
Packages were correctly retrieved but the installation failed.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: msttcorefonts 2.5
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: msttcorefonts
Title: package msttcorefonts 2.5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

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Confirmed due to duplicate.

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From the log file:
--2008-12-07 13:47:11-- http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/webdin32.exe
Resolving nchc.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Connection timed out.
wget: unable to resolve host address `nchc.dl.sourceforge.net'

Seems there were some problems at sourceforge, we cannot do much about it. Did you already try to reinstall?

[Andrew Hendrix (tmk-serenemoon)]

I got it installing Kubuntu-desktop

[Andrew Hendrix (tmk-serenemoon)]

Let me Rephrase that.

I got the bug installing Kubuntu-desktop

so far, reinstall hasn't worked, but I'm trying removal then reinstall to see if that clears it up.

[Andrew Hendrix (tmk-serenemoon)]

Edit: not Kubuntu-desktop
was actually
Kubuntu-restricted-extras

sorry for triple post... I'm new here :)

[Rhaego (rhaego)]

Everything works fine now.
Sorry for not having read the log file, it was obvious that the problem wasn't a "real" bug but something related to bad connection.

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Glad to hear that. Not sure what to do about it, though. Apparently this happens sometimes.

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I close this bug now. Feel free to reopen it, if you have problems connecting to the server.

[pauldoo (paul-richards)]

I had this problem when my http_proxy environment variable was set to an empty value. Not sure why this happened in the first place, but setting it properly fixed the problem.

Ubuntu 8.10 amd64.