I had the same problem on Ubuntu 14.04.01 LTS (incl. KDE).
I tried all three of Margaritas methods, but neither of them worked.
Then I completely removed the package from the system:
sudo apt-get remove --purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer
and big surprise when I logged in again: -> The light bulb with the message was
still there!
I found out that update-notifier is monitoring the contents of
/var/lib/update-notifier/ and that the following file contains exactly the
error message, update-notifier is complaining about:
/var/lib/update-notifier/user.d/data-downloads-failed-permanently
My solution:
1. sudo mv /var/lib/update-notifier/user.d/data-downloads-failed-permanently
/tmp/
2. login again and see whether you still have a bulb message
3. if you had removed the fonts package, install it again from a terminal
window (don't use any GUI package installer, since they might conflict with the
license agreement agreement dialog that comes with the package)
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