Looks like the failure is because some of the Sourceforge mirrors are flaky, and when a mirror flakes out, SourceForge redirects clients to a HTML page with Javascript that makes it try again - which is of course no good for headless downloads.
I stuck a copy of the files onto GitHub pages, and threw together a PPA with a modified version of the package, that downloads from GitHub instead (https://code.launchpad.net/~james-pic/+archive/ubuntu/msttcorefonts). Can we come up with a long term solution that gets around the Sourceforce dependency?
Looks like the failure is because some of the Sourceforge mirrors are flaky, and when a mirror flakes out, SourceForge redirects clients to a HTML page with Javascript that makes it try again - which is of course no good for headless downloads.
I stuck a copy of the files onto GitHub pages, and threw together a PPA with a modified version of the package, that downloads from GitHub instead (https:/ /code.launchpad .net/~james- pic/+archive/ ubuntu/ msttcorefonts). Can we come up with a long term solution that gets around the Sourceforce dependency?