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msttcorefonts package

package ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.0 failed to install/upgrade:

Bug #685950 reported by andrew nix on 2010-12-06

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #876298: [FFe] [MASTER] We need to better handle external payloads (Flash, msttcorefonts) not being available.. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

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

Bug Description

Binary package hint: msttcorefonts

not sure

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Dec 6 12:09:21 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage:
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.0
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-19.66-generic
SourcePackage: msttcorefonts
Title: package ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.0 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-19-generic i686

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andrew nix (andrew-nix) wrote on 2010-12-06:

Dependencies.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.gz Edit (6.3 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz Edit (51.0 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.gz Edit (12.1 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog.gz Edit (53.7 KiB, application/x-gzip)

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) wrote on 2010-12-06:

This is a rather frequent problem with ttf-mscorefonts-installer.
During installation of that package an internet-connection to download additional files is required.

Running
sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer
with activated internet-connection should solve the problem.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2011-06-22:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 633570, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.