Launchpad bug #1607535 is fixed in the upstream ttf-mscorefonts-installer
(v3.6) but at the time of this answer it hasn't been merged into Ubuntu's
repositories.
Check on Launchpad whether version 3.6 was made available for your
Ubuntu release. If that's the case, just update the repository
Still there in 14.10 Clean install alpha 2 with all updates
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In my case I had forgotten that I block exe files at the firewall/gateway.
Once I allowed exe files to download, the install finished correctly. Hope this
helps.
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I'm getting this error on 14.04 as well, ttf-mscorefonts-installer
actually downloads and installs fonts correctly but I still get the
error every time I log in. here's the install output and all seems ok so
I don't know what it's complaining about?
All done, no errors.
Extracting cabinet:
I have this issue in ubuntu 14.04, I tried the fix on #11 and it seems
to have worked so far.
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I confirm this bug is still active in clean installations of Ubuntu
13.10, and that the method proposed by BKD on comment #11 works
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This also affects ubuntu raring 13.04 amd64 (i did a clean install).
Simple fix (since many past distributions) has been to do the following:
sudo su
export http_proxy=http://username:password@proxyhost:port
apt-get install --reinstall ttf-mscorefonts-installer
I dont know why this still affects
I am also encountering this. Clean install Kubuntu 12.10. Install the
ttf-mscorefonts-extra by hand, accepted the EULA, etc. The fonts are
available for use on my system confirmed multiple ways. But I continue
to get this annoying notification that the install of it has failed.
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I have the exact issue on my Quantal 12.10x64 as described by Steve
above
sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
[sudo] password for arup:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
Hi. I was having this problem before I updated to update-notifier -
0.119ubuntu7, but it seems like the problem is still there for me even after
the update. I just installed yesterday Ubuntu Server 12.04 beta 2 64 bit +
kubuntu-desktop on top of it. Got the same message window packages
Johnny, the issue you're seeing is not this bug; this bug is only about
apt proxy settings being applied in cases where admins are not prepared
to have them applied.
Warning: Could not find 'gksudo', starting '/bin/bash' instead. Please
check your profile settings.
This is because gksudo is
** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/precise-proposed/update-notifier
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This bug was fixed in the package update-notifier - 0.119ubuntu7
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update-notifier (0.119ubuntu7) precise; urgency=low
* Use proto_proxy environment variables to choose the proxy to use for
data downloads, not the apt proxy settings, because apt may be
configured to point
** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged = Fix Committed
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To manage notifications about
Does /var/log/apt/term.log offer any more explanation for why the
download has failed here? Is there an apt proxy setting on the affected
systems pointed to a proxy that doesn't allow arbitrary file downloads?
(Where previously msttcorefonts looked for an $http_proxy env variable,
it now uses the
BTW, you should be able to reproduce this by running 'sudo /usr/lib
/update-notifier/package-data-downloader' by hand; the output may be
enlightening (or not).
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BTW, I should add for completeness that I can verify that removing the
proxy setting allows the download to proceed without incident. How can
we tell this package to download without using the proxy as it used to
(for this non-apt transaction)?
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There is an apt proxy, in fact. This is a regression; the old script
before the change simply fetched the files directly.
We set the proxy with
Acquire::http::Proxy http://internal-hostname:PORT/;
(where internal-hostname is a hostname, and PORT is a decimal for
the correct port on which the
Ok. Sorry about this; the reasoning here had been that:
- the desktop network configuration interface syncs the apt proxy settings
with the general proto_proxy env variables, so in the common case these are
the same
- the flashplugin-installer package has already been looking at the apt
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