Comment 34 for bug 1009436

Dirty solved by doing this:

mkdir ~/mscorefonts~/mscorefonts
cp /usr/share/package-data-downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer ~/mscorefonts
chenged with editor the content add wget in front to the fonts urls wget http://... , removed the hash row;
run it with :
sh mscorefonts
to donwload the exe fonts with wget

get the font dir with pwd

then reconfigured the package, telling the font dirs
sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer

All done...