Still broken in 16.10 (yakkety). [...] ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe 404 Not Found 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 https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the?download&failedmirror=vorboss.dl.sourceforge.net 404 Not Found E: Download Failed
Workaround: Use the Debian package instead (or completely replace Ubuntu with Debian while you're at it ...). wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/m/msttcorefonts/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb sudo dpkg -i ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Tieto, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1022891 Title: Regression bug: can't preseed download location Status in msttcorefonts package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: For some time already we have been using preseed to specify our local repository containing the Microsoft fonts. The main reason for this is that we have a pretty complicated proxy environment and it's much easier to provide the local repository directly. So we have used those preseed entries: ttf-mscorefonts-installer msttcorefonts/dlurl string http://@HOSTNAME@@DIRECTORY@/msttcorefonts/ ttf-mscorefonts-installer msttcorefonts/accepted-mscorefonts-eula boolean true The postinst script says it all: # FIXME: we don't have a way to use an alternate download source here. db_get msttcorefonts/dlurl URLOVERRIDE=$RET The rules file seems to generate a static URLROOT pointing to http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/ and the URLOVERRIDE is ignored. Our 12.04 workstations have some real issues with that. We have not worked that around yet. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts/+bug/1022891/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~tieto Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~tieto More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
