Today I have a same issue above # sudo apt-get 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 18 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/29.5 kB of archives. After this operation, 134 kB of additional disk space will be used. Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package ttf-mscorefonts-installer. (Reading database ... 113543 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.4+nmu1ubuntu2_all.deb ... Unpacking ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.11.94-0ubuntu1.1) ... Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.168.9) ... ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing... ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe [198 kB] Fetched 198 kB in 12s (15.3 kB/s) ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe [554 kB] Fetched 554 kB in 14s (38.6 kB/s) ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arialb32.exe Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arialb32.exe Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl E: Failed to fetch https://versaweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/arialb32.exe Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl
E: Download Failed Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ... localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/locale: 0 KiB localepurge: Disk space freed in /usr/share/man: 0 KiB Total disk space freed by localepurge: 0 KiB # apt show ttf-mscorefonts-installer -a Package: ttf-mscorefonts-installer Version: 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: multiverse/x11 Source: msttcorefonts Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]> Original-Maintainer: Thijs Kinkhorst <[email protected]> Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 134 kB Provides: msttcorefonts Pre-Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0 Depends: cabextract, xfonts-utils, update-notifier-common (>= 0.119ubuntu2) Recommends: fonts-liberation Download-Size: 29.5 kB APT-Sources: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/multiverse amd64 Packages Description: Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts # cat /etc/*release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS" NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="16.04.5 LTS (Xenial Xerus)" ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS" VERSION_ID="16.04" HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"; SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"; BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"; VERSION_CODENAME=xenial UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial I have fixed with: # wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/m/msttcorefonts/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb # dpkg -i ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb BTW, I notify they have already release 3.7 for this software but Ubuntu still release with 3.4. Did I missing something? Why ubuntu archive doesn't update for this packages? Package: ttf-mscorefonts-installer Version: 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: multiverse/x11 Source: msttcorefonts Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]> Original-Maintainer: Thijs Kinkhorst <[email protected]> Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 134 kB Provides: msttcorefonts Pre-Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0 Depends: cabextract, xfonts-utils, update-notifier-common (>= 0.119ubuntu2) Recommends: fonts-liberation Download-Size: 29.5 kB APT-Sources: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/multiverse amd64 Packages Description: Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts -- 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
