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

[McFly81]

Happens here too, Kubuntu 16.04 LTS. Seems to be related rather to
Sourceforge, because the error happens on different URLs. Wenn doing
"sudo apt-get install --reinstall ttf-mscorefonts-installer"

First attempt:

Fehl:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  404  Not Found
E: Fehlschlag beim Holen von https://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe  404  Not Found

E: Herunterladen fehlgeschlagen

Second attempt:

Fehl:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arialb32.exe
  Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl
E: Fehlschlag beim Holen von https://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/arialb32.exe  Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl

E: Herunterladen fehlgeschlagen

Third attempt:

Fehl:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl
E: Fehlschlag beim Holen von https://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe  Protocol "http" not supported or disabled in libcurl

E: Herunterladen fehlgeschlagen

Next attempt:

Fehl:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Vom HTTP-Server wurde eine ungültige »Content-Range«-Kopfzeile gesandt.
E: Fehlschlag beim Holen von https://netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe  Vom HTTP-Server wurde eine ungültige »Content-Range«-Kopfzeile gesandt.

E: Herunterladen fehlgeschlagen

Alway another font that goes wrong. Looks like Sourceforge is somewhat
in trouble...

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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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