Ubuntu
msttcorefonts package

very buggy on download exe with sourceforge

Bug #1877658 reported by ailton.b.s,j on 2020-05-08

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	msttcorefonts (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I have been using this package for 3 years and it is still very buggy. Add the fonts to the package or switch to a mirror. Sourceforge is not at all reliable.

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ailton.b.s,j (ailtonbsj) wrote on 2020-05-08:

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2022-01-16:

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

Changed in msttcorefonts (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Todd Taft (taft) wrote on 2022-01-16:

Errors like this are still common during install:
Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe [198 kB]
Fetched 198 kB in 1s (213 kB/s)
Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe
Could not resolve 'iweb.dl.sourceforge.net'
E: Failed to fetch http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/arial32.exe Could not resolve 'iweb.dl.sourceforge.net'
E: Download Failed