Proxy prevents installation of msttcorefonts package

[rickbeton]

Hi,

I'm happily using Ubuntu8.04 on a LAN and my network proxy settings allow access to the 'Net. Synaptic works fine except that it cannot install msttcorefonts. There is a post-install script that wants to fetch files from the 'Net but doesn't use the proxy to do so. So it fails.

Is there a way to do this manually using dpkg etc?

Rick

[rickbeton]

No-one answered my question but I found a solution on the web:

http://www.nabble.com/Installing-the-msttcorefonts-package-on-a-mchine-withou-internet-access-td15501534.html

Also:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/15835
http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/09/09/installing-microsoft-fonts/

[cubabit]

Another solution is to run:


sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer

As this starts a text based installer that gives you the option to supply a proxy configuration