Comment 78 for bug 1607535

I checked font viewer and they were all there. Sorry for the confusion.

Thanks

On Feb 21, 2017, 8:54 PM, at 8:54 PM, "Nathanaël Naeri" <email address hidden> wrote:
>@Tanner
>
>> "All done, no errors."
>
>Where is the error?
>
>Joke aside, the fonts are successfully downloaded and installed. The
>warnings (W) that you see, about the user _apt, are non-blocking. They
>have been reported in several other bug reports. I don't think anybody
>is investigating them yet. They're not on my urgent todo list either.
>Perhaps in the future.
>
>I'm going to update the bug's description to mention them. Thanks for
>reminding me about them.
>
>--
>You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a
>duplicate bug report (1655103).
>https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1607535
>
>Title:
> ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts
>
>Status in msttcorefonts package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
>
>Bug description:
> [Symptoms]
>
> When installing or updating the package ttf-mscorefonts-installer in
> Ubuntu 16.04 or 16.10, an error message appears in a GUI window,
> indicating "failure to download extra data files" (the fonts
> themselves) "after package installation" (the package itself appears
> to have been installed). This error message re-appears regularly, as a
> cron-job re-tries the failed download.
>
> If installing or updating from the command line, additional failure
> information is given in an error message prefixed by "E:", but this
> error message depends on the mirror server which is contacted for the
> download: "404 Not Found" is common, but there is also "Protocol http
> not supported or disabled in libcurl", and complains about invalid
> Content-Range headers.
>
> [Cause]
>
> The current 3.4 version of ttf-mscorefonts-installer in Ubuntu 16.04
> delegates the download of the proprietary Microsoft Core Fonts for the
> Web (Andale, Arial...) to the package update-notifier, which itself
> delegates it to the program apt-helper provided by the package apt.
> The download URL points to the host downloads.sourceforge.net, which
> redirects to a randomly-chosen mirror server
> <mirror>.dl.sourceforge.net.
>
> Unfortunately, the program apt-helper has a bug in the way it treats
> redirections. This bug makes apt-helper keep a space in the URL
> instead of encoding it to %20 before contacting the mirror. It is more
> extensively documented in bug 1655431 and bug 1651923. The mirror
> replies to this malformed request with an error message (e.g. "404 Not
> Found"), and download fails.
>
> Some mirrors appear to understand the malformed request nonetheless,
> and send the requested font file, however since there are 11 fonts to
> download, the chances of getting 11 understanding mirrors are low.
> Hence why the error message usually concerns andale32.exe or
> arial32.exe instead of webdin32.exe.
>
> [Workaround 1]
>
> Download the fonts manually and put them all in the same directory.
> You can use wget for that, because contrary to apt-helper, it handles
> redirections fine (command line formatted for readability, do not
> include line breaks and line indents):
>
>   $ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/
>       {andale32.exe,arial32.exe,arialb32.exe,comic32.exe,courie32.exe,
>       georgi32.exe,impact32.exe,times32.exe,trebuc32.exe,verdan32.exe,
>       webdin32.exe}
>
> Or you can use your browser: point it to
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/files/the%20fonts/final and
> download the same files.
>
> Make sure the package is purged and no remaining setup triggers are
> remaining, using your favorite package manager or command-line APT:
>
>   $ sudo apt-get purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer
>
> Then reinstall the package, this time pointing to the previously-
> downloaded fonts in a second step:
>
>   $ sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
>     # (this will most likely fail again)
>   $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer
>
> The second command should return a "graphical" interface in the
> terminal. Use it to point to the directory where you downloaded the
> fonts (/path/to/directory/containing/the/fonts). Make sure no .deb
> files are in this directory, they seem to be picked up too and then it
> fails.
>
> If a pop-up shows up for a post-install action later, just let it run,
> it shouldn't come back. It may triggered by the file /var/lib/update-
> notifier/user.d/data-downloads-failed and you may be successful in
> avoiding the regularly-reappearing message by removing this file. But
> this point is less clear.
>
> Once everything is working, you can delete the downloaded fonts in
> .exe format, they have been uncompressed and installed in
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts in .ttf format.
>
> Adapted from: Vincent Gerris (comment 17), Lesley Binks (comment 18).
>
> [Workaround 2]
>
> Remove Ubuntu's version of ttf-mscorefonts-installer and install
> Debian's version instead. Indeed, Debian's version uses wget to
> download the fonts, and contrary to apt-helper, wget handles
> redirections fine.
>
> Download the package from https://packages.debian.org/ttf-mscorefonts-
> installer. Version 3.6 has been tested by several users. This
> workaround should work with Debian's version 3.4+nmu1 too, but then
> you'd be prompted to update to Ubuntu's problematic version
> 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 next time you update your packages.
>
> To download the package with wget (command line formatted for
> readability, do not include line break and line indent):
>
>   $ wget http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/m/
>       msttcorefonts/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb
>
> Purge your currently-installed Ubuntu version of the package using
> your favorite package manager or command-line APT, and install the
> Debian version with dpkg:
>
>   $ sudo apt-get purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer
>   $ sudo dpkg --install /path/to/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb
>
> When this bug is fixed in Ubuntu 16.04 and 16.10, you can uninstall
> Debian's version of the package and go back to Ubuntu's version:
>
>   $ sudo dpkg --purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer
>   $ sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
>
> Adapted from: yas (comment 19), Richard Elkins (comment 40)
>
> [Fix]
>
> The bug was fixed by Julian Klode in package apt-transport-https
> 1.4~beta3ubuntu1, released 2017-01-11, for the upcoming 17.04 (zesty)
> release, see bug 1651923 comments 24 25.
>
> The fix was backported to apt-transport-https 1.3.4 and 1.2.19,
> released 2017-01-26, for the previous 16.10 (yakkety) and 16.04
> (xenial) releases, respectively, see bug 1651923 comments 57 58.
>
> If you are still affected by it, update apt-transport-https to the
> appropriate version and reinstall Ubuntu's version of ttf-mscorefonts-
> installer. Reinstalling is necessary or the daily error message won't
> go away, see bug 1654573 comment 12. You should remove Debian's
> version of ttf-mscorefonts-installer beforehand, if you installed it
> for workaround 2 above:
>
>   $ sudo dpkg --purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer
>
> If you run into Content-Range errors when reinstalling ttf-
> mscorefonts-installer, remove the downloaded fonts in /var/lib/update-
> notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/ and try again. This is a
> different bug, also fixed recently, but not backported to Xenial and
> Yakkety yet (bug 1657567).
>
> You may also run into warnings about a user _apt and their privileges:
> these are non-blocking and don't impact the successful download and
> installation of the fonts, as you can check at the end of the
> installation log. They have been reported in several other bug reports
> (e.g. bug 1658707), but not investigated yet.
>
> This bug used to be a duplicate of bug 1651923, but it is currently
> de-duplicated to hopefully make it easier for people to find it,
> instead of reporting the issue as a new bug. Otherwise, duplicates are
> hidden.
>
>To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts/+bug/1607535/+subscriptions