Ubuntu
msttcorefonts package

  1. Bug #1371783
  2. Comment #42

Comment 42 for bug 1371783

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James_pic (james-pic) wrote : Re: package ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 (utopic) fails to install/upgrade

Looks like the failure is because some of the Sourceforge mirrors are flaky, and when a mirror flakes out, SourceForge redirects clients to a HTML page with Javascript that makes it try again - which is of course no good for headless downloads.

I stuck a copy of the files onto GitHub pages, and threw together a PPA with a modified version of the package, that downloads from GitHub instead (https://code.launchpad.net/~james-pic/+archive/ubuntu/msttcorefonts). Can we come up with a long term solution that gets around the Sourceforce dependency?