package ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.6ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: installed ttf-mscorefonts-installer package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1

[Neal Lithwick]

Error occurred during 18.04 upgrade to 18.04. Tried download after reboot but failed;

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.6ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Apr 28 19:25:34 2018
ErrorMessage: installed ttf-mscorefonts-installer package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-05-24 (1070 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.6, Python 3.6.5, python3-minimal, 3.6.5-3
PythonDetails: /usr/bin/python2.7, Python 2.7.15rc1, python-minimal, 2.7.15~rc1-1
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.19.0.5ubuntu2
 apt 1.6.1
SourcePackage: msttcorefonts
Title: package ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.6ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: installed ttf-mscorefonts-installer package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-04-29 (0 days ago)

[Neal Lithwick (nlithwick)]

Sorry, meant 16.04 to 18.04 upgrade

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Jouni Holsa (jmenninkaninen)]

Had the same after upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04. According instructions at https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2349320 installed ttf-mscorefonts-installer version 3.7 from https://packages.debian.org/fi/sid/all/ttf-mscorefonts-installer/download and now waiting if it helps.

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

From the attached DpkgTerminalLog:
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe

0% [Working]
0% [Working]
0% [Working]

Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=cytranet.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 74.82.59.181 443]

0% [Working]

E: Failed to fetch https://cytranet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=cytranet.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 74.82.59.181 443]
E: Download Failed

[Shane Reimer (zenon222-s)]

bug confirmed again. How many times will this same bug occur. pathetic.

[David (dave400)]

Keep getting the same problem on a laptop with Ubuntu 18.04 and cannot fix it!

[Shrikant (csbadmin)]

Try to download debian pkg and install.

wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/m/msttcorefonts/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb

sudo dpkg -i ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb

[Shrikant (csbadmin)]

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2349320

[Alexander Malic (alexander-malic)]

can someone fix this annoying bug please?

[Martin McDowell (martin-mcdowell)]

Tried the suggestion that @Shrikant suggested but had an error.
I suggest heading to the FTp folder here http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/m/msttcorefonts/
and get the latest version. Currently its
ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.7_all.deb

so ran

sudo dpkg -i ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.7_all.deb

[Phan Van Cuong (cuongphan)]

Download this file and run with dpkg:

dpkg -i ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.7_all.deb to fix the issue.

I don't know why the ubuntu didn't upgrade the mirror, we can download from apt directly without download and use dpkg like this way.

Thank you Martin.

[Ron Johnson (ron-l-johnson)]

It's still happening in April 2019.

ron@haggis:~/pia_1.1.1$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall ttf-mscorefonts-installer
[sudo] password for ron:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 27.6 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B 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 (124 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 339195 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6ubuntu2_all.deb ...
mscorefonts-eula license has already been accepted
Unpacking ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.6ubuntu2) over (3.6ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.192.1.5) ...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=managedway.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 208.79.213.6 443]
E: Failed to fetch https://managedway.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=managedway.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 208.79.213.6 443]
E: Download Failed
Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.6ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.12.6-0ubuntu2) ...

[KC1DI (davekc1di)]

Have similar problem with this installer. this is the error message received:

Unpacking ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.6ubuntu2) over (3.6ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.192.1.5) ...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=cfhcable.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 146.71.73.6 443]
E: Failed to fetch https://cfhcable.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=cfhcable.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 146.71.73.6 443]
E: Download Failed
Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.6ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.12.6-0ubuntu2) ...

[Xavier Baez (xavierbaez)]

I have the same bug on Ubuntu 18.04
Any updates on the fix?
Even if I manually install the 3.6, when I do apt-get upgrade it downloads that one.