Comment 4 for bug 300186

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thanks every one for your valuable time.i tried reinstall the package and succeeded.i should have attempted it before filing a bug report. but it was a prompted by package manager/system.
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 Zaca wrote :
>I'm having I think the same problem. The package either fails to install
>or takes too long, but that is because the sourforge.net respositories
>are too slow to respond. I don't think this is a bug on apt or ubuntu,
>the solution would be to provide other mirrors for the font files to be
>searched automatically in this case.
>
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>package msttcorefonts 2.5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/300186
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>Status in “msttcorefonts” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
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>Bug description:
>E: msttcorefonts: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>
>ProblemType: Package
>Architecture: amd64
>DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
>ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>Package: msttcorefonts 2.5
>PackageArchitecture: all
>SourcePackage: msttcorefonts
>Title: package msttcorefonts 2.5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>Uname: Linux 2.6.27-8-generic x86_64