Comment 4 for bug 1654700

There's a bug.

andale32.exe already was downloaded in the target directory:

/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial$ ls -lh
insgesamt 196K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 194K Aug 15 2002 andale32.exe

I deleted the file and tried again:

ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
Fehl:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl
W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/andale32.exe' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Keine Berechtigung)
E: Fehlschlag beim Holen von https://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl

E: Herunterladen fehlgeschlagen
ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) wird eingerichtet ...

This time, the directory remained empty:

/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial$ ls -lh
insgesamt 0

It seems as if the whole issue has to do with permissions instead of invalid URLs.