On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 8:51 AM, mirohe <miguelrodriguezherna...@gmail.com>
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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  ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts
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