Seeing this after upgrade to 17.10 as well: $ sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/27,6 kB of archives. After this operation, 94,2 kB of additional disk space will be used. Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package ttf-mscorefonts-installer. (Reading database ... 413816 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6ubuntu2_all.deb ... Unpacking ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.6ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.186) ... ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing... ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden E: Failed to fetch https://netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden E: Download Failed Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.6ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.11.94-0ubuntu2) ...
The issue only happens when a HTTPS mirror fails and is redirected to a HTTP fallback; if I get a working HTTPS mirror, the fonts install correctly. Manually wget-ting the files, running dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts- installer and giving the path to the fonts sort of works - the fonts are installed, yet dpkg still complains about failed install, re-running dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer "fixes" this (the extractor seems enumerate the font files first, but then globs * anyway). $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer checking /home/user/tmp/andale32.exe checking /home/user/tmp/arial32.exe checking /home/user/tmp/arialb32.exe checking /home/user/tmp/comic32.exe checking /home/user/tmp/courie32.exe checking /home/user/tmp/georgi32.exe checking /home/user/tmp/impact32.exe checking /home/user/tmp/times32.exe checking /home/user/tmp/trebuc32.exe checking /home/user/tmp/verdan32.exe checking /home/user/tmp/webdin32.exe These fonts were provided by Microsoft "in the interest of cross- platform compatibility". This is no longer the case, but they are still available from third parties. You are free to download these fonts and use them for your own use, but you may not redistribute them in modified form, including changes to the file name or packaging format. /home/user/tmp/build.log: no valid cabinets found All done, errors in processing 1 file(s) Extracting cabinet: /home/user/tmp/andale32.exe extracting fontinst.inf extracting andale.inf extracting fontinst.exe extracting AndaleMo.TTF extracting ADVPACK.DLL extracting W95INF32.DLL extracting W95INF16.DLL All done, no errors. Extracting cabinet: /home/user/tmp/arial32.exe extracting FONTINST.EXE extracting fontinst.inf extracting Ariali.TTF extracting Arialbd.TTF extracting Arialbi.TTF extracting Arial.TTF All done, no errors. Extracting cabinet: /home/user/tmp/arialb32.exe extracting fontinst.exe extracting fontinst.inf extracting AriBlk.TTF All done, no errors. /home/user/tmp/cache: Invalid argument All done, errors in processing 1 file(s) Extracting cabinet: /home/user/tmp/comic32.exe extracting fontinst.inf extracting Comicbd.TTF extracting Comic.TTF extracting fontinst.exe All done, no errors. Extracting cabinet: /home/user/tmp/courie32.exe extracting cour.ttf extracting courbd.ttf extracting courbi.ttf extracting fontinst.inf extracting couri.ttf extracting fontinst.exe All done, no errors. Extracting cabinet: /home/user/tmp/georgi32.exe extracting fontinst.inf extracting Georgiaz.TTF extracting Georgiab.TTF extracting Georgiai.TTF extracting Georgia.TTF extracting fontinst.exe All done, no errors. Extracting cabinet: /home/user/tmp/impact32.exe extracting fontinst.exe extracting Impact.TTF extracting fontinst.inf All done, no errors. Extracting cabinet: /home/user/tmp/times32.exe extracting fontinst.inf extracting Times.TTF extracting Timesbd.TTF extracting Timesbi.TTF extracting Timesi.TTF extracting FONTINST.EXE All done, no errors. Extracting cabinet: /home/user/tmp/trebuc32.exe extracting FONTINST.EXE extracting trebuc.ttf extracting Trebucbd.ttf extracting trebucbi.ttf extracting trebucit.ttf extracting fontinst.inf All done, no errors. Extracting cabinet: /home/user/tmp/verdan32.exe extracting fontinst.exe extracting fontinst.inf extracting Verdanab.TTF extracting Verdanai.TTF extracting Verdanaz.TTF extracting Verdana.TTF All done, no errors. Extracting cabinet: /home/user/tmp/webdin32.exe extracting fontinst.exe extracting Webdings.TTF extracting fontinst.inf extracting Licen.TXT All done, no errors. One or more fonts could not be extracted. The fonts are NOT installed. Please run 'dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer' to perform the installation again -- 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 3.6ubuntu2 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
