Failure to Download core fonts

[Panawe]

Since the latest upgrade I have been getting a warning pop-up saying "Failure to Download". The package at issue is "ttf-mscorefonts-installer". Try to fix the problem through Terminal but no go so far. Otherwise everything seems okay.

Solutions anyone?

TIA

[lisati]

Please see this thread: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2346763

[howefield]

Have you got the fonts downloaded, you should have Andale Mono, Arial Black, Arial, Comic Sans MS, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Times New Roman, Trebuchet, Verdana and Webdings ?

Try..


sudo touch /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer

If that fails I'd suggest purging the package and installing the 3.6 version of the package.


wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/m/msttcorefonts/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb -P ~/Downloads

will download the package to your Downloads folder, and


sudo apt install ~/Downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb

will install the package.

[Panawe]

Well, that was quick :)

Thanks.

[SurfaceUnits]

The location of the fonts store has been changed on the sourceforge server