Allow local file search on msttcorefonts - msttcorefonts/dldir not displayed
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msttcorefonts (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: msttcorefonts
I found several reports of people with problem in installing msttcorefonts without Internet access. In my case, I have Internet access but a firewall blocks the download of these files by the installing program. There are workarounds like
http://
Whoever, besides being not a very elegant solution, it seems not to work on 8.04, because it doesn't install update-ms-fonts.
I have a suggestion regarding that problem: Why not make the installer look for the .exe files not only in the remote sites but also in a local directory, /tmp, for example. In the case of failure when downloading the files, a message could be shown asking the files to be manually download on that directory. The same warning could be included in the package description too.
The installer already does that, that's where the msttcorefonts/dldir is for. Why can't you use that?