I decided to do a 'wash, rinse, and restyle' ( very careful to accept the 'EULA' ) ...
sudo apt-get purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
ttf-mscorefonts-installer*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
After this operation, 134 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 191787 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ...
Purging configuration files for ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.156) ...
I decided to do a 'wash, rinse, and restyle' ( very careful to accept the 'EULA' ) ...
sudo apt-get purge ttf-mscorefonts -installer ts-installer* -installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ... -installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ... notifier- common (3.156) ...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
ttf-mscorefon
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
After this operation, 134 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 191787 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing ttf-mscorefonts
Purging configuration files for ttf-mscorefonts
Processing triggers for update-
Now, it's failing on 'arial32.exe' ...
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ttf-mscorefonts -installer: downloading http:// downloads. sourceforge. net/corefonts/ andale32. exe downloads. sourceforge. net/corefonts/ andale32. exe [198 kB] -installer: downloading http:// downloads. sourceforge. net/corefonts/ arial32. exe downloads. sourceforge. net/corefonts/ arial32. exe
Get:1 http://
Fetched 198 kB in 12s (15.8 kB/s)
ttf-mscorefonts
Get:1 http://
Fetched 552 B in 11s (47 B/s)
E: Failed to fetch http:// downloads. sourceforge. net/corefonts/ arial32. exe Hash Sum mismatch
E: Download Failed -installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ...
Setting up ttf-mscorefonts
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