[Bug 1607535] Re: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian

[notsure]

You can try my workaround:
edit your /usr/share/package-data-downloads replacing all
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/
with
https://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%20fonts/final/

remove all partial download with
rm -rf /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial

change your partial download directory permissions with
sudo chmod 777 /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial
or solve the problem of the _apt user with
sudo adduser --force-badname --system --home /nonexistent \ --no-create-home --quiet _apt || true

and restart the update process with
sudo /usr/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloader

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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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