Comment 11 for bug 1607535

Hi Julie,

I know vastly less than you, so your news is actually most reassuring to
me! Thanks.

Larry Sherk

On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 7:54 AM, Julie Brandon <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Unfortunately the sourceforge links this relies on are now EXCEPTIONALLY
> unreliable and have been for the last few weeks - for me and I'm sure
> most everyone else most download attempts fail considerably more often
> than they succeed now (and this is on a well behaved, rock solid, fibre
> connection.)
>
> Given that 10 or so successful downloads are required for this installer
> to complete, and most times individual downloads fail, and any
> individual download failing causes the process to fail, successful
> installation is now essentially impossible for me and many others - mine
> and others' systems have been stuck on the repeated "Failure to download
> extra files" dialogs for a while now.
>
> :(
>
> Given that it makes this package currently uninstallable and the
> considerable heat this is receiving, I'm struggling to see how this can
> be regarded as only medium priority now.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1607535
>
> Title:
> ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts
> and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian
>
> Status in msttcorefonts package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> As noted in
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts/+
> bug/1371783/comments/45,
> the current 3.4 version of ttf-mscorefonts-installer searches for the
> font files in an incorrect network location. The consequence of this
> is that the core fonts are never installed.
>
> The Debian (upstream) version 3.6 of ttf-mscorefonts-installer
> searches for the font files in the correct network location, and will
> successfully install the core fonts.
>
> This problem occurs with Ubuntu 16.04 as of July 2016. (And with
> earlier versions, including current LTS.)
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