unable to install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

[Clinton Leask]

As per below, error occurs on trying to install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/27.4 kB of archives.
After this operation, 133 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package ttf-mscorefonts-installer.
(Reading database ... 172813 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ttf-mscorefonts-installer (from .../ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.4ubuntu3_all.deb) ...
mscorefonts-eula license has already been accepted
Processing triggers for fontconfig ...
Processing triggers for update-notifier-common ...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader", line 234, in process_download_requests
    dest_file = urllib.urlretrieve(files[i])[0]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 93, in urlretrieve
    return _urlopener.retrieve(url, filename, reporthook, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 239, in retrieve
    fp = self.open(url, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 207, in open
    return getattr(self, name)(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 358, in open_http
    return self.http_error(url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 371, in http_error
    result = method(url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 664, in http_error_301
    return self.http_error_302(url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 634, in http_error_302
    data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 660, in redirect_internal
    return self.open(newurl)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 207, in open
    return getattr(self, name)(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 345, in open_http
    errcode, errmsg, headers = h.getreply()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1102, in getreply
    response = self._conn.getresponse()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1030, in getresponse
    response.begin()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 407, in begin
    version, status, reason = self._read_status()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 365, in _read_status
    line = self.fp.readline()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 430, in readline
    data = recv(1)
IOError: [Errno socket error] [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer
Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4ubuntu3) ...

A popup box also appears
The following packages requested additional data downloads after package installation, but the data could not be downloaded or could not be processed.

ttf-mscorefonts-installer

The download will be attempted again later, or you can try the download again now. Running this command requires an active Internet connection.

With two buttons, one for close and another for "Run this action now" .
"Run this action now" opens a terminal and after a minute or so the terminal window closes, but the popup box remains.

Also note in another attempt, the python error didn't occur, but the popup box still gets displayed.

sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/27.4 kB of archives.
After this operation, 133 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package ttf-mscorefonts-installer.
(Reading database ... 172813 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ttf-mscorefonts-installer (from .../ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.4ubuntu3_all.deb) ...
mscorefonts-eula license has already been accepted
Processing triggers for fontconfig ...
Processing triggers for update-notifier-common ...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4ubuntu3) ...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: update-notifier 0.119ubuntu8.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu May 3 19:53:10 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-notifier
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[dominik (schmidt-dominik)]

just had the same issue. i guess it's because of sourceforge which seems to have trouble with there servers. ->try: http://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/files/

[dominik (schmidt-dominik)]

Just tried it again. For me at least it is solved. Sourceforge is up and running again!

[negora (negora)]

While this issue it's resolved, you can use the command "dpkg-reconfigure" to set another SourceForge mirror to download the fonts, or even set a local folder. However, I don't know how to call the package triggers again, once the package is already installed and configured.

I also have tried to use "dpkg-preconfigure" and "dpkg -i" later, but the preconfiguration seems to be ignored.

[negora (negora)]

Because I didn't know how to change the assigned download server in the configuration finally, today I thought about a different approach, which consisted in using a different DNS server, just to check if maybe the name of the mirror server wasn't being resolved properly by my current DNS server... And it worked :) .

I simply used the public DNS servers from Google (8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4), installed, and then turned back to my DNS servers again.

I guess that this problem will get solved once that the right addresses propagates to every existing DNS server.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

It seems this wasn't a bug in update-notifier, but a problem with the download server. From what I see in the logs, update-notifier was working as designed.