It's still happening in April 2019. ron@haggis:~/pia_1.1.1$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall ttf-mscorefonts-installer [sudo] password for ron: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 27.6 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/multiverse amd64 ttf-mscorefonts-installer all 3.6ubuntu2 [27.6 kB] Fetched 27.6 kB in 0s (124 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 339195 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6ubuntu2_all.deb ... mscorefonts-eula license has already been accepted Unpacking ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.6ubuntu2) over (3.6ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.192.1.5) ... ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing... ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=managedway.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 208.79.213.6 443] E: Failed to fetch https://managedway.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=managedway.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 208.79.213.6 443] E: Download Failed Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.6ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.12.6-0ubuntu2) ...
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