One thing I noticed, is that it isn't consistent on which font it fails. It seems to be related to different mirrors and depending on which mirror is chosen it succeeds for fails. I'm thinking that the built-in list of mirrors in the package has a bunch of obsolete failing mirrors perhaps?
I'm seeing this issue on the latest up-to-date Ubuntu 18.04 as of May 4th, 2018:
gbutler@ gbutler- Oryx-Pro: ~/Rust/ rfcs/text$ sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts -installer ts-installer us.archive. ubuntu. com/ubuntu bionic/multiverse amd64 ttf-mscorefonts -installer all 3.6ubuntu2 [27.6 kB] -installer. mscorefonts- installer_ 3.6ubuntu2_ all.deb ... -installer (3.6ubuntu2) ... notifier- common (3.192) ... -installer: processing... -installer: downloading http:// downloads. sourceforge. net/corefonts/ andale32. exe downloads. sourceforge. net/corefonts/ andale32. exe [198 kB] -installer: downloading http:// downloads. sourceforge. net/corefonts/ arial32. exe downloads. sourceforge. net/corefonts/ arial32. exe downloads. sourceforge. net/mirrorprobl em?failedmirror =iweb.dl. sourceforge. net' is forbidden [IP: 192.175.120.182 443] /iweb.dl. sourceforge. net/project/ corefonts/ the fonts/final/ arial32. exe Redirection from https to 'http:// downloads. sourceforge. net/mirrorprobl em?failedmirror =iweb.dl. sourceforge. net' is forbidden [IP: 192.175.120.182 443] -installer (3.6ubuntu2) ...
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One thing I noticed, is that it isn't consistent on which font it fails. It seems to be related to different mirrors and depending on which mirror is chosen it succeeds for fails. I'm thinking that the built-in list of mirrors in the package has a bunch of obsolete failing mirrors perhaps?