Installing msttcorefonts: Error message

you might want to try installing the msttcorefonts again, it sounds like your internet connection was a bit dodgy so some of the files didn't download

Yes, I have tried to reinstalling it, but I get the same error mesage. Also I cannot *uninstall* either. Whenever I try to do anything with Synaptic, I get the exact same message.

No, not using Automatix. Might try fresh install. :)

It gets really annoying as it pops up whenever you try to install anything.

before trying again you should run
sudo dpkg --purge msttcorefonts

msttcorefonts is "available" through repository but reports error in package. It might be better to wait a while before trying again.

I tried
sudo dpkg --purge msttcorefonts

But I get the same error message. Only it begins with:

dpkg: error processing msttcorefonts (--purge):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

I'll try again tomorrow.

If you use some proxy may be you must set
export http_proxy=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:port
and
export ftp_proxy=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:port

HTH

I don't think I'm using a proxy.

I try this now and all works fine for me (Ubuntu 7.10):
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get purge msttcorefonts
sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

HTH

Sorry, guys. But even after doing a clean, update, purge, and install, I still get the same error message. I get the same message for the purge and the install.

Thanks for your help guys.

I just did a fresh install.

Oh, well...

;)

Thanks arochester, that solved my question.

I have just encountered the same problem - msttcorefonts wouldn't install any fonts, wouldn't allow itself to be removed and threw up an error message any time I tried to do anything in synaptic. Eventually I got rid of it as follows:

1. The post-installation script (/var/lib/dpkg/info/msttcorefonts.postinst) was looking for a directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts, which for some reason I didn't have. Don't know, don't care, some problem with the original installation I guess. Anyway I created the directory and populated it with the MS core fonts downloaded manually from the web. This fixed the post-installation script error.

2. Attempts to remove msttcorefonts now gave me an error from the pre-removal script (/var/lib/dpkg/info/msttcorefonts.prerm). This script is fairly simple, basically just removes the actual fonts prior to removal of the installer. I commented out the two if statements in there, after which I was able to successfully remove msttcorefonts itself using sudo apt-get remove --purge msttcorefonts. I won't be inviting it back any time soon.

Hope that saves someone a fresh install.

After week and weeks and weeks I have managed to successfully load msttcorefonts. I tried all sorts of things.

Adept Updater yesterday indicated an update to msttcorefonts 1.8. At the top of this post it's 2.2. Has there been a backwards step?

In e17 I downloaded (but did not install) the package. I later changed to Kubuntu and installed the package with Kpackage.

It seems to be alright.

Had this problem as well. Am behind proxy, though. I decided to just use the solution andymac came up with. Worked fine, downloaded fonts from gnome-look.

I "solved" the problem by editing /var/lib/dpkg/info/msttcorefonts.postinst

Line 15:
b_get msttcorefonts/http_proxy

just commented this line out:
#b_get msttcorefonts/http_proxy

the installation worked, but I got a strange message:

"All done, no errors.
All fonts downloaded and installed.
No CIDSupplement specified for Batang-Bold, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for KochiMincho-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for KochiGothic-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Dotum-Bold, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Dotum-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Batang-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for KochiGothic-Regular-JaH, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for KochiMincho-Regular-JaH, defaulting to 0.
Couldn't get cwd: No such file or directory"

Anyone knows what this means?

I had this problem as well. I'm behind a proxy, and have apt-cacher setup.

I suspect this package somehow wasn't aware of that and kept trying to go direct.

After exporting the an env setting for my proxy a retry of the install worked ok.
 export http_proxy=http://user:password@hostname:port

I'd avoid directly manipulating the install scripts in the package and instead read up on manual download/install of the files instead. The package appears to be a wrapper that automates this for us due to the license requirements forcing them to keep the files in a non-debian-package format.

i have the same problem..... so please some body i used the way (( export http_proxy=http://user:password@hostname:port))
but nothing...

@ m.s.jaafreh
that didn't work for me either

this is what I did

I edited the file /var/lib/dpkg/info/ttf-mscorefonts-installer.postinst

I changed the line
http_proxy=$RET to

http_proxy=http://hostname:port

(replace hostname and port with your hostname and port)

I commented out the lines

while ! echo "$http_proxy" | \
    egrep -q 'https?://[[:alnum:]][-.[:alnum:]]+(:\d+)?/?' && \
    [ ! -z "$http_proxy" ] ; do
        db_fset msttcorefonts/http_proxy seen false
        db_input high msttcorefonts/http_proxy
        db_go
        db_get msttcorefonts/http_proxy
        http_proxy=$RET
done

and saved the file

after that, I ran

sudo dpkg --configure -a

and the install was completed