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msttcorefonts package

  1. Bug #1713615
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 1713615

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Gerald E Butler (gerald-edward-butler) wrote :

I'm seeing this issue on the latest up-to-date Ubuntu 18.04 as of May 4th, 2018:

gbutler@gbutler-Oryx-Pro:~/Rust/rfcs/text$ sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 27.6 kB of archives.
After this operation, 94.2 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/multiverse amd64 ttf-mscorefonts-installer all 3.6ubuntu2 [27.6 kB]
Fetched 27.6 kB in 0s (143 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package ttf-mscorefonts-installer.
(Reading database ... 286381 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6ubuntu2_all.deb ...
Unpacking ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.6ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.192) ...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe [198 kB]
Fetched 198 kB in 1s (188 kB/s)
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe
Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe
  Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=iweb.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 192.175.120.182 443]
E: Failed to fetch https://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/arial32.exe Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=iweb.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 192.175.120.182 443]
E: Download Failed
Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.6ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.12.6-0ubuntu2) ...

One thing I noticed, is that it isn't consistent on which font it fails. It seems to be related to different mirrors and depending on which mirror is chosen it succeeds for fails. I'm thinking that the built-in list of mirrors in the package has a bunch of obsolete failing mirrors perhaps?