Following suggestion work for me " I did a: dpkg-reconfigure -plow --force ttf-mscorefonts-installer
to remove the proxy from the settings and the package was installed successfully."
I hadn't set any proxy, but the issue was proxy related, as I got following error messages:
"Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name."
Following suggestion work for me -installer
"
I did a:
dpkg-reconfigure -plow --force ttf-mscorefonts
to remove the proxy from the settings and the package was installed successfully."
I hadn't set any proxy, but the issue was proxy related, as I got following error messages:
"Error parsing proxy URL http:// :8080/: Invalid host name."