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msttcorefonts package

  1. Bug #1371783
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Comment 0 for bug 1371783

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VinDSL (perfect-pecker) wrote : package ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4 fails to install/upgrade

I've been trying to upgrade/update 'ttf-mscorefonts-installer' for the past week, but the install/upgrade fails with a 'andale32.exe checksum mismatch" error:

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ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
Fetched 552 B in 11s (47 B/s)

E: Failed to fetch http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe Hash Sum mismatch

E: Download Failed
Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ...

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'lsb_release -rd':
Description: Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn (development branch)
Release: 14.10

apt-cache policy ttf-mscorefonts-installer
ttf-mscorefonts-installer:
  Installed: 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://mirror.hmc.edu/ubuntu/ utopic/multiverse i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I expect it to complete the install/upgrade, but it constantly chokes on 'andale32.exe' .