[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Kevin Dalley]

I started seeing this problem after updating to Ubuntu 17.10


ttf-mscorefonts-installer-3.6ubuntu2

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Jan-Åke Larsson]

Probably just very unstable mirroring. I downloaded the fonts with wget
as per the original bug report (needed to restart wget once), and did

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer

I gave the download directory as path inside the terminal-dialogue that
appears. This solved the problem.

Not really a problem of the package, then. Perhaps have the package
retry some limited number of attempts, and only then give up?

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Jan-Åke Larsson]

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?

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Naël]

** Description changed:

  [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
  .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 

[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Naël]

@Greg:

> 500 Bad redirection (path)
> which I have not seen listed here before - is this a new issue?

Possibly. I have not seen this error before either, in relation to this
bug. Just to be sure, can you please make sure that there aren't any
font-related partial downloads in /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-
downloads/partial/? If there are, delete them, and check that the issue
you report still happens when reinstalling ttf-mscorefonts-installer:

  $ sudo apt-get purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer
  $ sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

This trick helped a previous user who was bothered by an error that
shouldn't have occurred any longer (comments 79 to 85).

If you're still stuck with the same error, your issue would possibly be
a new bug that I think would be best reported against apt (source
package for the binary package apt-transport-https), unless I'm
mistaken:

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Greg Whiteley]

I'm still unable to install even with updated apt-transport-https.  The
error message is

Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  500  Bad redirection (path)
E: Failed to fetch http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe 500  
Bad redirection (path)

which I have not seen listed here before - is this a new issue?


Package Versions (xenial):

ttf-mscorefonts-installer: 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2
apt-transport-https: 1.2.20


Results:

$ sudo apt install --reinstall ttf-mscorefonts-installer 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree   
Reading state information... Done
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 to reinstall, 0 to remove and 0 not to 
upgrade.
Need to get 29.5 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/multiverse amd64 
ttf-mscorefonts-installer all 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 [29.5 kB]
Fetched 29.5 kB in 0s (2,239 kB/s)   
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 409809 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.4+nmu1ubuntu2_all.deb ...
mscorefonts-eula license has already been accepted
Unpacking ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) over (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.11.94-0ubuntu1.1) ...
Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.168.4) ...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading 
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  500  Bad redirection (path)
W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file 
'/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/andale32.exe' couldn't 
be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
E: Failed to fetch http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe 500  
Bad redirection (path)

E: Download Failed
Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ...

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Naël]

@aaronfranke:

The fix has been published long ago and nobody has this issue any more.

Please read this bug's updated description for all the information, and
please report details here if you see something the description doesn't
mention.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[aaronfranke]

I'm still having this issue. Has the fix been pushed out yet?

I'm using Xubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Naël]

@Kristoffer:

Assuming the package apt-transport-https is up-to-date on your computer,
what you're seeing are not errors but probably the warnings mentioned in
the bug's description, second-to-last paragraph.

Please refer to the bug's description, and please report details here if
seeing something the description doesn't mention. I'll investigate.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Kristoffer Grundström]

If I install ubuntu-restricted-extras to get some media codecs I see
many rows regarding this error during the installation.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Naël]

I'm glad manually removing the partially-downloaded fonts fixed the
issue for you.

A bug about partially-downloaded fonts preventing the rest of the
download is currently being fixed in bug 1657567. However, the error
that is thrown out in that case (Content-Range error) is not the same as
the one you report in your comment 80 (Protocol "http" not supported or
disabled in libcurl). There would be ground for a separate bug report
regarding your issue, I think.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Uqbar]

apt-cache policy ttf-mscorefonts-installer
ttf-mscorefonts-installer:
  Installed: 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 500
500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/multiverse amd64 Packages
500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/multiverse i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

There were actually three files:

ls -l /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/
total 804K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  969 2016-11-29 07:35:04 andale32.exe.FAILED
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 165K 2002-08-15 16:34:10 arialb32.exe
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 632K 2002-08-15 16:34:27 courie32.exe

I removed those files and I got:

...
All done, no errors.
All fonts downloaded and installed.
flashplugin-installer: processing...
flashplugin-installer: downloading 
http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_20170314.1.orig.tar.gz
Scaricamento di:1 
http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_20170314.1.orig.tar.gz
 [30,4 MB]
Recuperati 30,4 MB in 23s (1.283 kB/s)  

 
W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file 
'/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/adobe-flashplugin_20170314.1.orig.tar.gz'
 couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permesso negato)
Installing from local file 
/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/adobe-flashplugin_20170314.1.orig.tar.gz
Flash Plugin installed.


So the application is still buggy: it can't be that I need to manually remove 
failed downloads in order to have a successful execution.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Naël]

This issue should not happen any longer, so I'm a bit disconcerted. What
is the version table for your ttf-mscorefonts-installer package?

  $ apt-cache policy ttf-mscorefonts-installer

Can you confirm that there are no font-related partial downloads in
/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/ (if there are,
just delete them), and that the issue you report happens when
reinstalling ttf-mscorefonts-installer?

  $ sudo apt-get purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer
  $ sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Uqbar]

apt-cache policy apt-transport-https
apt-transport-https:
  Installed: 1.2.19
  Candidate: 1.2.19
  Version table:
 *** 1.2.19 500
500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
 1.2.15ubuntu0.2 500
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 
Packages
 1.2.10ubuntu1 500
500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Naël]

Uqbar, what is your version of apt-transport-https?

  $ apt-cache policy apt-transport-https

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Uqbar]

It's a fully updated system!

ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading 
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
Scaricamento di:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe [198 
kB]
Recuperati 198 kB in 2s (81,6 kB/s) 
   
W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file 
'/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/andale32.exe' couldn't 
be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permesso negato)
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading 
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe
Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe
  Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl
W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file 
'/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/arial32.exe' couldn't 
be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permesso negato)
E: Impossibile recuperare 
https://netix.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/arial32.exe  
Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl

E: Scaricamento non riuscito

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Uqbar]

Still getting the error on KUbuntu 16.04.2.
Same error, same annoyance.

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Re: [Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Tanner Blomster]

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" 
<1607...@bugs.launchpad.net> 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.
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>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
>  .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
>  

[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Naël]

** Description changed:

  [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
  .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 

[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Naël]

@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.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Tanner Blomster]

@Nathanael

apt-transport-https is version 1.2.19

The error when I install ttf-mscorefonts-installer version
3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 is located here: https://paste.ubuntu.com/24043773/

Output is from sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer.  I removed
ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.6 from Debian repository.  I used Synaptic
to remove it. (Mark for removal)

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Naël]

Sigh... The bug that never got away. Did you update apt-transport-https?
Reinstalled ttf-mscorefonts-installer? Followed the instructions in
section [Fix] of the bug's description? And what's the errors saying?

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Re: [Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Tanner Blomster]

I still get errors using 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 package after removing the 
Debian version.


On 02/21/2017 09:57 AM, Thomas Mayer wrote:
> I removed debian's package and installed ubuntu's fixed version of ttf-
> mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2). Works great now. Thanks!
>

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Thomas Mayer]

I removed debian's package and installed ubuntu's fixed version of ttf-
mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2). Works great now. Thanks!

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Naël]

** Description changed:

  [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
  .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 

[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Travisgevans]

Thanks for providing information on working around the Content-Range
errors here. The daily cron spam and inability to properly install the
affected packages was getting annoying, and the solution is not
particularly obvious to a casual user.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Naël]

> "command line formatted for readability, do not include line breaks
and line indents"

So it's wget http://url/corefonts/{font,font,...} or if your shell
doesn't support the {} syntax you have to download each font one after
the other.

That said, bug is fixed, it's time to use the fix, not the workaround.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Timofey Vorobyov]

workaround 1: invalid link
 $ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/ 
results in HTTP error 404

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Nathanaël Naeri]

** Description changed:

  [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
  .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 

[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Nathanaël Naeri]

** Description changed:

  [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
  .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}
+   $ 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
+   $ 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
+   $ 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 

[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Nathanaël Naeri]

This bug has been fixed in apt-transport-https 1.2.19 (xenial) and 1.3.4
(yakkety), released 2017-01-26, by Julian Klode in bug 1651923.

If you are still affected by it, update apt-transport-https to the
appropriate version and reinstall Ubuntu's version of ttf-mscorefonts-
installer. You should remove Debian's version of ttf-mscorefonts-
installer beforehand, if you installed it (unless you want to keep using
Debian's version of course).

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).

** Changed in: msttcorefonts (Ubuntu)
   Status: In Progress => Fix Released

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Nathanaël Naeri]

Robin:

Sorry I couldn't reply sooner.

For 16.04, this bug has been fixed in apt-transport-https 1.2.19,
released Jan 26, 2017, so you shouldn't run into it again with the
Ubuntu ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4 package, provided you update apt-
transport-https to 1.2.19.

For 14.04, I cannot reproduce what you describe. On my own 14.04
machine, I am able to install Ubuntu's ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4
without any error. Your issue may have a different cause. If you can
still reproduce it, please open a new bug report with as much
information as you can give, and subscribe me to it.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Robin]

Nathanaël, many thanks for your *clear* explanation of what was done to
the code between Debian and Ubuntu.

In regards to 14.04, when this machine (located in the UK) originally
had 14.04 installed, ttf-mscorefonts-installer worked fine. When 14.04
was re-installed in January 2015, ttf-mscorefonts-installer failed to
download. At that point, the Debian 3.6 package was installed, which
downloaded successfully (quite in line with your explanation). The
symptoms have continued with other 14.04 LTS installs, and now with
16.04 LTS installs. (On a number of machines.)

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Nathanaël Naeri]

As proposed in comments 56 57, I have temporarily removed the duplicate
status of this bug to un-hide it in the package's bug list, in the hope
that people will find it more easily and stop opening new bugs to report
this problem.

I have updated the description with all the findings made about this
bug, in particular its cause, two workarounds, and Julian Klode's work
to fix it in bug 1651923. Please improve on this description if you can.
Thanks to all the people who contributed to investigating this bug.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Nathanaël Naeri]

** Description changed:

- As noted in
- 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts/+bug/1371783/comments/45,
- the current 3.4 version of ttf-mscorefonts-installer searches for the
- font files in an incorrect network location. The consequence of this is
- that the core fonts are never installed.
+ [Symptoms]
  
- The Debian (upstream) version 3.6 of ttf-mscorefonts-installer searches
- for the font files in the correct network location, and will
- successfully install the core fonts.
+ 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.
  
- This problem occurs with Ubuntu 16.04 as of July 2016. (And with earlier
- versions, including current LTS.)
+ 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
+ .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 

[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Nathanaël Naeri]

Robin, comment 63:

> This package comes originally from Debian, where the current
> version is 3.6. That version seems to work without problem,
> no matter how ugly it may be in doing so.

As a matter of fact, even Debian's version 3.4 works. It works because
it uses wget to download the fonts, while Ubuntu's version of the
package uses apt-helper, which has a bug, see comments 50 52 by Adrien
Beau, and the bug 1655431 he links to, which points to the root cause in
bug 1651923.

So it's not a case of "version 3.4 is broken, version 3.6 fixes the
problem" but a case of "Ubuntu versions of the package are broken,
Debian versions of the package work".

I do not know why the Ubuntu package was modified in the first place,
rather than simply copied from Debian (and I personally wish there were
less delta between the two distributions, to avoid these Ubuntu-only
bugs). Perhaps we can find out the reasons in the changelog for the
Ubuntu package.

> An update to the existing 3.6 code would
> provide a clean solution

Yes and no. On the one hand, using Debian's 3.6 package as-is certainly
works, as mentionned in this thread.

But the Ubuntu package cannot be updated to pure Debian 3.6 without
losing the Ubuntu-specific changes. So the changes made in Debian
between 3.4 and 3.6 should instead be merged to the Ubuntu package, for
it to benefit from both the features of the new version and the Ubuntu-
specific changes.

Since one of these Ubuntu-specific changes is using apt-helper instead
of wget, the bug would remain.

> problem which, as you will have noticed,
> affects a very large number of people

It affects me too.

> Unless someone is going actively to develop and test an updated
> package which resolves the problems with version 3.4

Someone is: Julian Klode, see bug 1651923, of which this bug is a
duplicate (although I am going to temporarily remove duplicate status,
see this bug, comments 56 57).

Julian has already released a fix, available in Ubuntu's upcoming 17.04
release, as is the correct procedure. Fixes aren't released directly to
production releases, they are first tested in the development release,
in case they don't work or cause new bugs.

If you can use the development release, please test this package and
report in bug 1651923. Feedback will be appreciated and will help the
fix to be backported to the production releases.

> (As a point of information, this bug also appears with 14.04.)

Crap. I was quite sure it was specific to 16.06 and 16.10. Can you give
more details? In bug 1651923, bottom of comment 24, Julian Klode
mentions that there is a different issue with the downloads on Trusty
(14.04). Can you confirm whether you are running into this different
issue (download hangs) or the issue discussed in this bug (download
fails)?

** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1651923
   apt https method decodes redirect locations and sends them to the 
destination undecoded.

** Tags removed: upgrade-software-version

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Nathanaël Naeri]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1651923 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1651923

Jeremy, comment 59:

> the next Ubuntu bugfix update for this package (if there is one)
> will be numbered something like 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2.1

It would be 3.4+nmu1ubuntu3 I believe. But there will be no new version
of this package to fix this bug, as it has to be fixed in another
package (apt), not in this package (ttf-mscorefonts-installer).

cbcymru, comment 60:

> So have those of us who have switched to version 3.6, and there
> seem to be many, left our computers vulnerable?

Only if there is a security vulnerability in Debian's v3.6 ttf-
mscorefonts-installer, and only if it is found...

> When the 3.4 version bug is finally fixed how could we switch back
> to the fixed version 3.4?

I was just wondering about that and it seems as trivial as using dpkg
with the "purge" action (-P, --purge) instead of the "install" action
(-i, --install):

  $ dpkg -P /path/to/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb

And then you'd install the Ubuntu package. Running what Jeremy proposes
in comment 61 would also install the Ubuntu package but without
uninstalling the Debian package before, and given that these packages
have differences, I'd rather be on the safe side and run whatever pre-
removal and post-removal scripts are included in the Debian package.

cbcymru, comment 62:

> If you should discover how to stop the install prompt before
> the fix is found, please post the details.

Lesley Binks in comment 18 suggests removing the file:

  /var/lib/update-notifier/user.d/data-downloads-failed

which he says triggers the message. Unfortunately he hasn't reported yet
if it works and is safe. Also, note that this is in the context of
Vincent Gerris's workaround in comment 17, not in the context of using
Debian's version 3.6.

Obviously, if you don't need Microsoft's Core Fonts, you may just
uninstall the package.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Robin]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1651923 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1651923

Nathaniel, addressing the change made between comments #54 & #55. This
bug is *not* relating to the functional failure of ttf-mscorefonts-
installer, but rather to the failure of Ubuntu to *update to version
3.6*. This package comes originally from Debian, where the current
version is 3.6. That version seems to work without problem, no matter
how ugly it may be in doing so. An update to the existing 3.6 code would
provide a clean solution to the problem which, as you will have noticed,
affects a very large number of people.

Unless someone is going actively to develop and test an updated package
which resolves the problems with version 3.4, then the change proposed
negates the point of this bug report, which is to adopt the Debian
solution. The solution in Debian mainstream (version 3.6) is already
tested and working. What is missing is for Ubuntu to adopt version 3.6.

(As a point of information, this bug also appears with 14.04.)

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[cbcymru]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1651923 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1651923

Jeremy, Many thanks. I've taken the cautious approach and reinstalled
Xubuntu 16.04LTS.  So I'm back to version 3.4 and I've already had my
first install prompt. Very annoying!

If you should discover how to stop the install prompt before the fix is
found, please post the details.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Jeremy Bicha]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1651923 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1651923

Good questions. If you choose to keep 3.6 installed for now, I would
subscribe to https://launchpad.net/bugs/1651923

When that bug is marked **Fix Released** and the update is applied to
your computer (it may be a week later), I would then re-install the
Ubuntu version of this package.

To re-install the Ubuntu version, you can run this from the command
line:

sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer/xenial

(Of course, use yakkety instead of xenial if you are using Ubuntu
16.10).

I don't know about stopping the install prompts.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[cbcymru]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1651923 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1651923

Jeremy, thanks for the insight. So have those of us who have switched to
version 3.6, and there seem to be many, left our computers vulnerable?
When the 3.4 version bug is finally fixed how could we switch back to
the fixed version 3.4?

Also, for those still using the buggy version 3.4 is there a simple way
to stop the install prompts? as they're as annoying as they are
pointless.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Jeremy Bicha]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1651923 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1651923

cbcymru, the problem with installing packages from outside the Ubuntu
repositories is that you might not receive bugfix or security updates
for those packages. Why? Because you installed 3.6 and the next Ubuntu
bugfix update for this package (if there is one) will be numbered
something like 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2.1. Since that's a lower number than 3.6,
apt will not update your package to that version.

Also, in this case, the Debian package is substantially different so
it's not as integrated into Ubuntu's environment. I'm not familiar
enough with this package to tell you what those differences are.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[cbcymru]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1651923 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1651923

Having tired of receiving regular prompts to install ttf-mscorefonts I
ignored the fact that I'm a normal user and followed the advice offered
in post #40 by installing version 3.6.

It works in that I no longer receive the prompts, but have I compromised
the OS by installing version 3.6?  Has it solved the problem, masked the
problem or created a new problem that I'm not yet aware of?

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Jeremy Bicha]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1651923 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1651923

Nathanaël, thanks for your help! Yes, you can de-duplicate for now but
please update the bug description to explain the current status so
people don't have to read a long thread to find that out.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Nathanaël Naeri]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1651923 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1651923

Is there a way to list this bug in the bug list of msttcorefonts without
removing duplicate status, so that people stop reporting this problem as
a new bug? The apt bug this bug is a duplicate of is not obvious to find
for most users running into this problem.

If not, can we temporarily remove duplicate status?

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Nathanaël Naeri]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1651923 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1651923

Removing the "...and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian" part
of the bug title to reflect that the fix isn't in version 3.6 per se
(but in package apt, as explained in bug 1651923). Version 3.6 only
works around this bug by using wget instead of apt-helper to download
the fonts, it doesn't fix it. And should Ubuntu's package be merged with
Debian's, the bug would stay because usage of apt-helper would be kept
in the Ubuntu package.

That said a merge would still be nice, for reasons exposed in bug
1656102 and duplicates.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

[Nathanaël Naeri]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1651923 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1651923

** Summary changed:

- ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and 
should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian
+ ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Jeremy Bicha]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1651923 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1651923

I'm marking this a duplicate of bug 1651923 which is the underlying apt
issue. The good news is that a fix is being worked on for Ubuntu 16.04
and 16.10.

As for the update request, I've opened bug 1656102 for that so those
interested in the update can subscribe to that bug instead. From what I
can tell, updating this package to 3.6 is not needed to fix this bug.
Debian's package worked because Debian's package is different. That
difference is part of why Ubuntu's packages hasn't been updated recently
because that difference is complicated.

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1651923
   apt https method decodes redirect locations and sends them to the 
destination undecoded.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Serge Stroobandt]

Downloading and installing https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/ttf-
mscorefonts-installer/download works flawlessly.

A lot of people are affected by this bug:
https://askubuntu.com/a/859472/164341

At least 3 people (myself included) confirm the new version of this
package works with Ubuntu 16.04.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Adrien Beau]

As written in comment #50, this problem is in the apt package. Also, it
is specific to 16.04.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[JPT]

Tried in fresh Ubuntu 14.04.5 install, and works fine:

Trigger für update-notifier-common (0.154.1ubuntu2) werden verarbeitet ...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading 
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading 
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading 
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arialb32.exe

...

All done, no errors.
All fonts downloaded and installed.

So the problem is located somewhere else?

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Adrien Beau]

Hello everybody that recently commented on this issue (starting with
comment #10)!

I believe the core issue is in not in the msttcorefonts package: it is
modified on Ubuntu to delegate all downloads to the update-notifier
package, which is the one having issues. (That is why installing the
Debian version is a quick fix: it does not use update-notifier.)

The update-notifier package itself delegates the download to the apt-
helper program from the apt package, which is the one having a problem
and which should be fixed.

Have a look at the following issue for the details, and vote on it if
you are affected:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/1655431

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Kato Soeth]

#40 - "All done, no errors".

Thanks!
K.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[M0ses]

#45 Worked for me - but it should be fixed in general

annoying bug - seems easily can be fixed

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Exeleration-G]

#40 worked here as well. Thanks for the quick fix.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[John Erling Blad]

Tried #40, and it seems to have worked.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Thomas Mayer]

Upgrading to debian's 3.6 package worked for me for ubuntu 16.04:

wget 
"http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/m/msttcorefonts/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb;
sudo apt-get remove --purge  ttf-mscorefonts-installer
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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[albert_pe]

I tried beruci 's suggestion
sudo dpkg -i ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb

. . .

All done, no errors.
thanks!

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Jimmy Merrild Krag]

I just installed the .deb file from debian
(https://packages.debian.org/jessie/all/ttf-mscorefonts-
installer/download) and it worked without any issues. I used gdebi on
the terminal, but I don't see why it shouldn't work with the software
center installer.

Since the package from Debian works, why is it not just pushed to the
repositories as is?

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[mirohe]

Completely agree with you cbcymru

I understand that this bug is not critical, but I would have to be assigned.
A user "normal" (without computer knowledge), does not know how to install 
things from terminal.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[cbcymru]

As Malik Rumi (malik-a-rumi) #25 quite rightly asked, how are we
"normal" users meant to deal with this bug?

It is an issue that's been continuing on and off since at least 2012 and
yet amazingly this bug remains Unassigned.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Richard Elkins]

Automated work-around (no failures, no re-runs, no manual edits), 3
steps:

sudo apt-get -y remove --purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer
wget 
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/m/msttcorefonts/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb
 -P ~/Downloads
sudo apt install ~/Downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb

(Mind any line-breaks in step 2 above i.e. the wget step)

Hopefully, the Ubuntu repo version will be fixed soon.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[McFly81]

Manually installing version 3.6 worked, but cannot be right solution.
Please fix 3.4 or merge 3.6.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[McFly81]

Happens here too, Kubuntu 16.04 LTS. Seems to be related rather to
Sourceforge, because the error happens on different URLs. Wenn doing
"sudo apt-get install --reinstall ttf-mscorefonts-installer"

First attempt:

Fehl:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  404  Not Found
E: Fehlschlag beim Holen von 
https://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the 
fonts/final/andale32.exe  404  Not Found

E: Herunterladen fehlgeschlagen

Second attempt:

Fehl:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arialb32.exe
  Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl
E: Fehlschlag beim Holen von 
https://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the 
fonts/final/arialb32.exe  Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl

E: Herunterladen fehlgeschlagen

Third attempt:

Fehl:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl
E: Fehlschlag beim Holen von 
https://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe  
Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl

E: Herunterladen fehlgeschlagen

Next attempt:

Fehl:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Vom HTTP-Server wurde eine ungültige »Content-Range«-Kopfzeile gesandt.
E: Fehlschlag beim Holen von 
https://netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the 
fonts/final/andale32.exe  Vom HTTP-Server wurde eine ungültige 
»Content-Range«-Kopfzeile gesandt.

E: Herunterladen fehlgeschlagen

Alway another font that goes wrong. Looks like Sourceforge is somewhat
in trouble...

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Arutyun]

I have the same bug. Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[mirohe]

Yes, the package of debian version 3.6 work ok in ubuntu 16.04.
But this not is the solution. The solution is fix the ubuntu package, for all 
users can be update from the official repository.

The temporary solution can be the install debian package, but when the
ubuntu package is fix, will be necesssary uninstall manually the debian
package and install the package Ubuntu.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Alexis de Lattre]

I took the Debian packages for Jessie (debian stable) from 
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/all/ttf-mscorefonts-installer/download
which is version 3.6 and I installed it fine with "dpkg -i" on my Ubuntu 16.04 
server. I can see the fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts

So we just need someone to port msttcorefonts v3.6 from Debian to
Ubuntu.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[mandarke]

are sourceforge aware of the missing "%20" ?

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Dirk Bosmans]

Indeed #17 installs the fonts, but doesn't prevent the pop-up that
prompts to install them again. In fact the fonts were installed in the
first place, and that didn't keep the pop-up away either. These are old
font files, the .exe installers are equally old, and do not change
anymore. The problem lies with the package that triggers their
installation again and again and again.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[mirohe]

Yes, #17 is the temporary solution, but not is the solution of the package.

I thing that the problem is the shown in #21.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[stinger]

microsoft, please help us ...

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[lobner]

I second that -
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts/+bug/1607535/comments/17
works - thank you very much!

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Igor]

#17 works! thank you!

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[mandarke]

what's stopping canonical from hosting this themselves?

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Markus Neubauer]

Btw: All LibreOffice users exchanging documents with other OS flavours
are affected, too.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Markus Neubauer]

I guess, this not tested...

Correct is the suggestion above in #21

further error:

/usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading 
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
Fehl:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl
E: Fehlschlag beim Holen von 
https://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe  
Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Malik Rumi]

Assuming this workaround passes whatever tests it might need, how are
all the rest of us 'normal' users going to get it? Will it be patched
into our regular updates? When? I am on 16.04, and this has been going
on for a while now, perhaps mid November as another poster stated. But I
also see tons of similar issues going back for several versions of
Ubuntu. What happened to all of those? Didn't anyone notice that the
same issue was carrying over from version to version?

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[notsure]

You can try my workaround:
edit your /usr/share/package-data-downloads replacing all
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/
with
https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%20fonts/final/

remove all partial download with
rm -rf /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial

change your partial download directory permissions with
sudo chmod 777 /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial
or solve the problem of the _apt user with
sudo adduser --force-badname --system --home /nonexistent \ --no-create-home 
--quiet _apt || true

and restart the update process with
sudo /usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader

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Re: [Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Kevin O'Gorman]

Well, nothings perfect.  There's a bug I didn't notice because I ran the
script inside the directory where the fonts go.  It's important that the
script not be there, so it's better with an added 'cd' command:

> #!/bin/bash
>
> # grab the raw fonts required by mscorefonts-installer
>
> if [ $# -ne 1 ] ; then
>   echo " *** Error: $0 needs exactly one argument: the name of an empty
> directory where the fonts will go"
>   exit 1
> fi
>
> cd $1
>
> for font in andale32.exe arial32.exe arialb32.exe comic32.exe courie32.exe
> georgi32.exe impact32.exe times32.exe trebuc32.exe verdan32+++ \.exe
> webdin32.exe ; do
>   wget
> https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%20fonts/final/$font
> done
>
> sudo apt-get remove --purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer
> sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer
>
>
On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Kevin O'Gorman  wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 8:51 AM, mirohe 
> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I wrote this wrong
>>
>> Url in debian package the url is:
>>
>> https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%20fo
>> nts/final/andale32.exe
>> -> OK
>>
>> and ubuntu package the url is like this:
>>
>> https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the
>> fonts/final/andale32.exe  -> ERROR
>>
>> result ubuntu
>>
>> Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
>>   404 Not Found
>> E: Impossible de récupérer https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.
>> net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe 404 Not Found
>>
>>
>> The difference is:
>> Debian package -> "corefonts/the%20fonts/final" OK
>> Ubuntu package -> "corefonts/the fonts/final" ERROR
>>
>> "%20" no exist in ubuntu package and fail.
>>
>>
>>
>> This is one of the reasons I like to reduce things like this to a
> script.  Here's what I used:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>> # work around problems in ttf-mscorefonts-installer
>>
>> if [ $# -ne 1 ] ; then
>>   echo " *** Error: $0 needs exactly one argument: the name of an empty
>> directory where the fonts will go"
>>   exit 1
>> fi
>> for font in andale32.exe arial32.exe arialb32.exe comic32.exe
>> courie32.exe georgi32.exe impact32.exe times32.exe trebuc32.exe
>> verdan32.exe webdin32.exe ; do
>>   wget https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%
>> 20fonts/final/$font
>> done
>>
>> sudo apt-get remove --purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer
>> sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
>> sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer
>>
>
>
>
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Re: [Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 8:51 AM, mirohe 
wrote:

> Sorry, I wrote this wrong
>
> Url in debian package the url is:
>
> https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%
> 20fonts/final/andale32.exe
> -> OK
>
> and ubuntu package the url is like this:
>
> https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the
> fonts/final/andale32.exe  -> ERROR
>
> result ubuntu
>
> Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
>   404 Not Found
> E: Impossible de récupérer https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.
> net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe 404 Not Found
>
>
> The difference is:
> Debian package -> "corefonts/the%20fonts/final" OK
> Ubuntu package -> "corefonts/the fonts/final" ERROR
>
> "%20" no exist in ubuntu package and fail.
>
>
>
> This is one of the reasons I like to reduce things like this to a script.
Here's what I used:

#!/bin/bash
> # work around problems in ttf-mscorefonts-installer
>
> if [ $# -ne 1 ] ; then
>   echo " *** Error: $0 needs exactly one argument: the name of an empty
> directory where the fonts will go"
>   exit 1
> fi
> for font in andale32.exe arial32.exe arialb32.exe comic32.exe courie32.exe
> georgi32.exe impact32.exe times32.exe trebuc32.exe verdan32.exe
> webdin32.exe ; do
>   wget
> https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%20fonts/final/$font
> done
>
> sudo apt-get remove --purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer
> sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer
>


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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[mirohe]

Sorry, I wrote this wrong

Url in debian package the url is:

https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%20fonts/final/andale32.exe
-> OK

and ubuntu package the url is like this:

https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the
fonts/final/andale32.exe  -> ERROR

result ubuntu

Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  404 Not Found
E: Impossible de récupérer 
https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the 
fonts/final/andale32.exe 404 Not Found


The difference is:
Debian package -> "corefonts/the%20fonts/final" OK
Ubuntu package -> "corefonts/the fonts/final" ERROR

"%20" no exist in ubuntu package and fail.

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[mirohe]

I have tried and there is a difference when installing the ubuntu
package with the debian package.

Url in debian package:


Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  404 Not Found
E: Impossible de récupérer 
https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%20fonts/final/andale32.exe
 404 Not Found

Url in Ubuntu package:

Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  404 Not Found
E: Impossible de récupérer 
https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the 
fonts/final/andale32.exe 404 Not Found


The difference is: 
Ubuntu package -> "corefonts/the%20fonts/final"  ERROR
Debian package -> "corefonts/the fonts/final"  OK

"%20" no exist in ubuntu package and fail.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Lesley Binks]

Also just found

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts/+bug/1371783/comments/45

which suggests a more complete work around by retrieving the appropriate
package from debian repositories.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Lesley Binks]

+1 to Vincent for posting this workaround.

I had already purges and installed the relevant files:

ttf-mscorefonts-installer cabextract libmspack0

a few times with no success.


So I figured I would run the final command Vincent suggested: 
 
sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer

So I purged and installed then dpkg-reconfigured fine.

I checked /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/ and the files are there.  
Some symbolic links in that directory carry the date of installation so people 
can check the dates on the symbolic links to verify Vincent's workaround has 
worked.

However, while Vincent's workaround successfully installs the mscorefonts,  the 
file: 
/var/lib/update-notifier/user.d/data-downloads-failed
which triggers the message everyone is seeing, remains.

This might be a bug between update-notifier interactions with the apt or
dpkg packages.  Not sure if it should be filed as such.

I'm going to remove that data-downloads-failed file and see if anything
breaks.

Hope this helps people

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Vincent Gerris]

I posted the workaround: https://askubuntu.com/a/857970/585518

The workaround is to grab the files manually from here for example:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/files/the%20fonts/final/ and
save them in the same directory (say mscorefonts).

The files are (from the installer): Those files are in the Microsoft
Windows self-installing format, and are named

andale32.exe, arial32.exe, arialb32.exe, comic32.exe, courie32.exe, 
georgi32.exe, impact32.exe, times32.exe, trebuc32.exe, verdan32.exe and 
webdin32.exe.
Make sure the package is purged and no remaining setup triggers are remaining:

sudo apt-get remove --purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Then in a terminal run:

sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer #(this will fail again most 
likely)
sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer
That should give you a "graphical" interface in the terminal. Then point to the 
directory with downloaded files like /home//Downloads/mscorefonts.

Make sure no deb files are in there, the seem to be picked up too and
then it fails.

I hope that helps. Indeed the mirror checking needs to be improved. Why
can Canonical not host these? Sourceforge seems to get increasingly
crappy.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Per Heldal]

Solutions to this problem is to either use a more capable HTTP-client
for download to cope with Sourceforge's ads and redirections, or to host
the fonts elsewhere. Workarounds by directing the installer to
particular mirrors etc may work for a while, and/or from some places,
but aren't likely to be reliable in the long term. Less complex servers
should be preferred for automated downloads.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Belmar-Letelier]

```
$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances   
Lecture des informations d'état... Fait
Les NOUVEAUX paquets suivants seront installés :
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer
0 mis à jour, 1 nouvellement installés, 0 à enlever et 2 non mis à jour.
Il est nécessaire de prendre 0 o/29,5 ko dans les archives.
Après cette opération, 134 ko d'espace disque supplémentaires seront utilisés.
Préconfiguration des paquets...
Sélection du paquet ttf-mscorefonts-installer précédemment désélectionné.
(Lecture de la base de données... 363899 fichiers et répertoires déjà 
installés.)
Préparation du dépaquetage de 
.../ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.4+nmu1ubuntu2_all.deb ...
Dépaquetage de ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ...
Traitement des actions différées (« triggers ») pour fontconfig 
(2.11.94-0ubuntu1.1) ...
Traitement des actions différées (« triggers ») pour update-notifier-common 
(3.168.2) ...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading 
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  404  Not Found
E: Impossible de récupérer 
https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the 
fonts/final/andale32.exe  404  Not Found

E: Download Failed
```

but this work::

```
$ wget 'https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the 
fonts/final/arialb32.exe'
--2016-12-04 11:00:08--  
https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%20fonts/final/arialb32.exe
Résolution de freefr.dl.sourceforge.net (freefr.dl.sourceforge.net)… 
2a01:e0d:1:8:58bf:fa88:0:1, 88.191.250.136
Connexion à freefr.dl.sourceforge.net 
(freefr.dl.sourceforge.net)|2a01:e0d:1:8:58bf:fa88:0:1|:443… connecté.
requête HTTP transmise, en attente de la réponse… 200 OK
Taille : 168176 (164K) [application/octet-stream]
Enregistre : «arialb32.exe.1»

arialb32.exe.1
100%[=>]
164,23K   634KB/sin 0,3s

2016-12-04 11:00:08 (634 KB/s) - «arialb32.exe.1» enregistré [168176/168176]
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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Robin]

In reply to #13 above, the version on 16.04 is *not* 3.6, but rather
3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 (xenial). Version 3.6, as noted at #7 above, uses a set
of 9 alternative paths, rather than the single path of 3.4.

The solution that has been adopted for multiple installs of Ubuntu,
14.04 and 16.04 is to install the Debian version immediately after the
base Ubuntu install. The procedure has worked, so far, but is ugly. The
necessity of doing this does little for the good reputation of Ubuntu as
offering "just works" software.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[corvidism]

This bug is still (again?) happening to me on 16.04. The ttf-
mscorefonts-downloader repeatedly fails on the first file
(andale32.exe). And this is obviously the 3.6 Debian version, because it
reports multiple mirrors - so far it has been freefr.dl.sourceforge.net
and vorboss.dl.sourceforge.net.

Both return the file OK when I access them through browser, so I suspect
SourceForge might be checking cookies.

As have been said in Bug #1371783, SourceForge has become extremely
unreliable for automated downloads - I really think the files need to be
hosted elsewhere.

(IMHO, The best temporary fix would be James-pic's GitHub hosted version
of the package
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts/+bug/1371783/comments/42
but the PPA doesn't work for xenial - I reached out to James-pic, I'll
report back when/if it's available)

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Mikko Pesari]

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?

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Re: [Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Larry Sherk]

Hi Julie,

I know vastly less than you, so your news is actually most reassuring to
me!  Thanks.

Larry Sherk

On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 7:54 AM, Julie Brandon <
julie-launch...@computergeeks.co.uk> wrote:

> Unfortunately the sourceforge links this relies on are now EXCEPTIONALLY
> unreliable and have been for the last few weeks - for me and I'm sure
> most everyone else most download attempts fail considerably more often
> than they succeed now (and this is on a well behaved, rock solid, fibre
> connection.)
>
> Given that 10 or so successful downloads are required for this installer
> to complete, and most times individual downloads fail, and any
> individual download failing causes the process to fail, successful
> installation is now essentially impossible for me and many others - mine
> and others' systems have been stuck on the repeated "Failure to download
> extra files" dialogs for a while now.
>
> :(
>
> Given that it makes this package currently uninstallable and the
> considerable heat this is receiving, I'm struggling to see how this can
> be regarded as only medium priority now.
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> Title:
>   ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts
>   and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian
>
> Status in msttcorefonts package in Ubuntu:
>   Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>   As noted in
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts/+
> bug/1371783/comments/45,
>   the current 3.4 version of ttf-mscorefonts-installer searches for the
>   font files in an incorrect network location. The consequence of this
>   is that the core fonts are never installed.
>
>   The Debian (upstream) version 3.6 of ttf-mscorefonts-installer
>   searches for the font files in the correct network location, and will
>   successfully install the core fonts.
>
>   This problem occurs with Ubuntu 16.04 as of July 2016. (And with
>   earlier versions, including current LTS.)
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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Julie Brandon]

Unfortunately the sourceforge links this relies on are now EXCEPTIONALLY
unreliable and have been for the last few weeks - for me and I'm sure
most everyone else most download attempts fail considerably more often
than they succeed now (and this is on a well behaved, rock solid, fibre
connection.)

Given that 10 or so successful downloads are required for this installer
to complete, and most times individual downloads fail, and any
individual download failing causes the process to fail, successful
installation is now essentially impossible for me and many others - mine
and others' systems have been stuck on the repeated "Failure to download
extra files" dialogs for a while now.

:(

Given that it makes this package currently uninstallable and the
considerable heat this is receiving, I'm struggling to see how this can
be regarded as only medium priority now.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[harrym]

Not sure how general this observation is, but I can confirm that 
*.sourceforge.net is inaccessible (telnet, or ping) from my expressvpn servers. 
Disconnecting the vpn makes them available again. 
Note that all the 3.6 url's are blocked in this way.

Once i disconnected the vpn temporarily, the fonts installed as
expected.

Bottom line: sourceforge is unreliable. files need to be located
elsewhere.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[dino99]

@Robin

'freefr' refers to the first tip : https://sourceforge.net/publish/ (fr
located)

** Changed in: msttcorefonts (Ubuntu)
   Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Robin]

Brian, thanks for looking.

The real problem here is that downloading the font files from
Sourceforge has sometimes worked, and sometimes not.

In true "Read the code, Luke" vein, the difference between versions 3.4 
(Ubuntu) and 3.6 (Debian) is that in Ubuntu 3.4 the base path for the download 
URI (in the rules file) is:
URLROOT = http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/

but in Debian 3.6 the download URI (in the update-ms-fonts file) is:
URLROOTS="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/
http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/
http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/
http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/
http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/
http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/
http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/
http://internode.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/
http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/
http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/;

The download test that you suggested runs fine today, but would not have
done so a few months ago. Others have suggested that this is due to how
advertisements are/have been presented by Sourceforge.

In a nutshell, version 3.6 is apparently more robust against download
problems than 3.4. Since 2014 there have been download problems
reported, though today, 2016-10-07, such problems are not manifesting
themselves. Running wget from the command line gets the interesting
response:

<>
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: 
http://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%20fonts/final/andale32.exe
 [following]
<<…and then the file is retrieved>>

One might assume that the freefr.dl.sourceforge.net URI indicates that
the files are provided free from any interference. (I was unable to
track down any specifics on this.)

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Brian Murray]

The changelog for the debian version of msttcorefonts gives no
indication that the urls have changed.  Additionally, running the code
that downloads the fonts certainly seems to work:

 $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree   
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  appmenu-qt5 libappstream3 libdevel-caller-perl libdevel-lexalias-perl 
libpadwalker-perl libtype-tiny-perl libtype-tiny-xs-perl libxen-4.6 
python3-pycurl python3-requests-oauthlib
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 29.5 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://192.168.10.7/ubuntu yakkety/multiverse amd64 
ttf-mscorefonts-installer all 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 [29.5 kB]
Fetched 29.5 kB in 0s (400 kB/s) 
The system does not support apt-btrfs-snapshot
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 293580 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.4+nmu1ubuntu2_all.deb ...
mscorefonts-eula license has already been accepted
Unpacking ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) over (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.174) ...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading 
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe [198 kB]
Fetched 198 kB in 3s (59.5 kB/s)
   
W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file 
'/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/andale32.exe' couldn't 
be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading 
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe
Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe [554 kB]
Fetched 554 kB in 3s (139 kB/s) 
  
W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file 
'/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/arial32.exe' couldn't 
be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)

Noticed the Get and Fetched information.  Could you provide some more
details about why you think this needs fixing?

** Changed in: msttcorefonts (Ubuntu)
   Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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[dino99]

http://metadata.ftp-
master.debian.org/changelogs//contrib/m/msttcorefonts/msttcorefonts_3.6_changelog

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[dino99]

Please sync, yakkety is awaiting too

msttcorefonts (3.6) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Add Turkish translation, thanks Mert Dirik (closes: #757868).
  * Update to policy 3.9.6, no changes.

 -- Thijs Kinkhorst   Thu, 16 Oct 2014 05:52:57 +

msttcorefonts (3.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Mark Multi-Arch: foreign, thanks Scott Ritchie, Daniel Hartwig
(closes: #700684).
  * Switch to debhelper 9. Update for policy 3.9.4 (no changes).
  * Use maintscript support in dh_installdeb rather than writing out
dpkg-maintscript-helper commands by hand.  We now simply Pre-Depend on a
new enough version of dpkg rather than using 'dpkg-maintscript-helper
supports' guards, leading to more predictable behaviour on upgrades.
Thanks Colin Watson (closes: #659724).
  * Proxy test failed when HTTP:// is given in uppercase. Thanks
Tobias Olsson (LP: #1072580).
  * Show licence message when fonts actually installed (closes: #672259).

 -- Thijs Kinkhorst   Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:55:44 +0100

** Tags added: upgrade-software-version yakkety

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Robin]

This bug addresses the specific question of the relocated source files,
but nothing else.

Bugs
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts/+bug/1371783/
and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts/+bug/1563840
would seem to be duplicates.

Most importantly, neither of those bugs actually report the failure to
install the font files due to their change of location on Sourceforge.

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[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas]

I think this bug is a duplicate of bug #1563840 (Please merge
msttcorefonts 3.6 (multiverse) from Debian testing (contrib)

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