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msttcorefonts package

  1. Bug #1607535
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 1607535

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Mikko Pesari (mpesari) wrote : Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

Since November 14th, 2016 the installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) has consistently failed on new Xenial installations. Before that date it used to work just fine. Debian version (3.6) works very well on Xenial and it's distributed to all our machines.

Meanwhile everything works OK on new Trusty installations...

I can see different error messages when running "apt install --reinstall ttf-mscorefonts-installer" in a loop:

Hash Sum mismatch
The HTTP server sent an invalid Content-Range header
404 Not Found

This seems to be an issue in how update-notifier approach downloads the fonts (due to server-side changes?) Maybe it is something similar to Bug #977812. Is there a way to make update-notifier/downloader dump all sent and received headers?