[Bug 246902] Re: Allow local file search on msttcorefonts - msttcorefonts/dldir not displayed

[Steve Langasek]

We don't want to show such a question by default, that would interrupt
the flow of the install in the common case.  You can always get to this
question with 'dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer'.

** Changed in: msttcorefonts (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

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Title:
  Allow local file search on msttcorefonts - msttcorefonts/dldir not
  displayed

Status in “msttcorefonts” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: msttcorefonts

  I found several reports of people with problem in installing
  msttcorefonts without Internet access.  In my case, I have Internet
  access but a firewall blocks the download of these files by the
  installing program.  There are workarounds like

  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=203994.

  Whoever, besides being not a very elegant solution, it seems not to
  work on 8.04, because it doesn't install update-ms-fonts.

  I have a suggestion regarding that problem: Why not make the installer
  look for the .exe files not only in the remote sites but also in a
  local directory, /tmp, for example. In the case of failure when
  downloading the files, a message could be shown asking the files to be
  manually download on that directory. The same warning could be
  included in the package description too.

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