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" <[email protected]> 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. > >-- >You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a >duplicate bug report (1655103). >https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1607535 > >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 > <mirror>.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 /path/to/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb > > When this bug is fixed in Ubuntu 16.04 and 16.10, you can uninstall > Debian's version of the package and go back to Ubuntu's version: > > $ sudo dpkg --purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer > $ sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer > > Adapted from: yas (comment 19), Richard Elkins (comment 40) > > [Fix] > > The bug was fixed by Julian Klode in package apt-transport-https > 1.4~beta3ubuntu1, released 2017-01-11, for the upcoming 17.04 (zesty) > release, see bug 1651923 comments 24 25. > > The fix was backported to apt-transport-https 1.3.4 and 1.2.19, > released 2017-01-26, for the previous 16.10 (yakkety) and 16.04 > (xenial) releases, respectively, see bug 1651923 comments 57 58. > > If you are still affected by it, update apt-transport-https to the > appropriate version and reinstall Ubuntu's version of ttf-mscorefonts- > installer. Reinstalling is necessary or the daily error message won't > go away, see bug 1654573 comment 12. You should remove Debian's > version of ttf-mscorefonts-installer beforehand, if you installed it > for workaround 2 above: > > $ sudo dpkg --purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer > > 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). > > You may also run into warnings about a user _apt and their privileges: > these are non-blocking and don't impact the successful download and > installation of the fonts, as you can check at the end of the > installation log. They have been reported in several other bug reports > (e.g. bug 1658707), but not investigated yet. > > This bug used to be a duplicate of bug 1651923, but it is currently > de-duplicated to hopefully make it easier for people to find it, > instead of reporting the issue as a new bug. Otherwise, duplicates are > hidden. > >To manage notifications about this bug go to: >https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts/+bug/1607535/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1607535 Title: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts/+bug/1607535/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
