Comment 4 for bug 1840199

Thank you for taking the time to help make Ubuntu better, and responding.

If you open up the url http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe on that machine, do you get a download? (in a browser)

I just tried and the file downloaded for me.

I now suspect you have a firewall, or site rules that restrict your ability to download .exe files or has restrictions on certain sites (such as sourceforge)

Are you on a private LAN? corporate LAN? or school or other restricted site?

I booted up a Lubuntu 18.04 LTS machine that didn't have the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package installed, apt installed it without issue. I do believe you have a LAN or local network restriction blocking you.

This may be better handled as a question; ie. it's not a bug in the software I still believe, but a restriction for your site you need help working your way around.