package ttf-mathematica4.1 4 failed to install: post-installation script terminated abnormally with an exit value of 1.

[Norbert Bollow]

Binary package hint: ttf-mathematica4.1

I installed this system today using the "server" install CD (even though it is a desktop system, because the "desktop" CD fails to install on this machine), then installed gnome and a couple of other things manually. Then went looking for fonts. I suspect that the ttf-mathematica package is missing a dependency or two.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: Unterprozess post-installation script gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück
Package: ttf-mathematica4.1 4
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ttf-mathematica4.1
Title: package ttf-mathematica4.1 4 failed to install/upgrade: Unterprozess post-installation script gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-server i686

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

It seems the package was moved to other URL... so this will need to be looked at by the packager.

Richte ttf-mathematica4.1 ein (4) ...

--2008-12-13 02:35:23-- http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/systems/windows/general/files/MathFonts_TrueType_41.exe

Resolving support.wolfram.com... 140.177.205.40

Connecting to support.wolfram.com|140.177.205.40|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently

Location: http://support.wolfram.com/ [following]

--2008-12-13 02:35:26-- http://support.wolfram.com/

Connecting to support.wolfram.com|140.177.205.40|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: unspecified [text/html]

Saving to: `./index.html'

    [<=> ] 0 --.-K/s
    [ <=> ] 3'938 7.24K/s
    [ <=> ] 9'698 7.41K/s
    [ <=> ] 21'218 9.55K/s
    [ <=> ] 23'434 10.5K/s in 2.2s

2008-12-13 02:35:30 (10.5 KB/s) - `./index.html' saved [23434]

checking MathFonts_TrueType_41.exe

Downloaded file looks corrupted!

dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von ttf-mathematica4.1 (--configure):

 Unterprozess post-installation script gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück

[Norbert Bollow (nb-bollow)]

Actually what the package does is that it tries to download (and then install fonts from) http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/systems/windows/general/file/MathFonts_TrueType_41.exe

This fails because the link is broken at support.wolfram.com: The server now redirects to http://support.wolfram.com/

(Did the package maintainers discuss (before contributing this package to the Ubuntu repository) with support.wolfram.com whether including this kind of package in the Ubuntu universe repository would be ok with them, and whether they would continue to make the package available at that URL?)

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

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 299427, 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. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.