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msttcorefonts package

  1. Bug #1607535
  2. Comment #92

Comment 92 for bug 1607535

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Jan-Åke Larsson (jalar) wrote : Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

Still seeing this in 17.10. Purging and reinstalling leads to

ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
Fel:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=10gbps-io.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden
E: Misslyckades med att hämta https://10gbps-io.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=10gbps-io.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden
E: Hämtning misslyckades

Trying this repeatedly sometimes succeeds in downloading the first few fonts, but never all of them. Very very unstable mirroring?