[Bug 1371783] Re: package ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 (utopic) fails to install/upgrade

[Guitar-robot]

Here's a work-around until the package is fixed:

TMP=`mktemp -d`
cd $TMP
grep Url: /usr/share/package-data-downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer | awk '{print $2}' | xargs -n 1 wget
sudo /usr/lib/msttcorefonts/update-ms-fonts $TMP/*
cd -
rm -rf $TMP

Note that this does skip the hash sum check, but they're just fonts,
It's not like someone's going to hijack the download.sourceforge.net DNS
and use it to distribute invalid files. The files aren't being executed:
the update-ms-fonts script uses cabextract to pull the TTF files out of
each exe.

Anyway, hope this helps.

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Title:
  package ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 (utopic) fails to
  install/upgrade

Status in msttcorefonts package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I've been trying to upgrade/update 'ttf-mscorefonts-installer' for the
  past week, but the install/upgrade fails with  a 'andale32.exe Hash
  Sum mismatch" error:

  <SNIP>

  ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Fetched 552 B in 11s (47 B/s)

  E: Failed to fetch
  http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe  Hash Sum
  mismatch

  E: Download Failed
  Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ...

  <SNIP>

  'lsb_release -rd':
  Description:	Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn (development branch)
  Release:	14.10

  apt-cache policy ttf-mscorefonts-installer
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer:
    Installed: 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2
    Candidate: 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2
    Version table:
   *** 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 0
          500 http://mirror.hmc.edu/ubuntu/ utopic/multiverse i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  I expect it to complete the install/upgrade, but it constantly chokes
  on 'andale32.exe', and generates a notification after each boot.

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