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

[Andrew Elia]

I've pulled the package apart because I wasn't having much luck with any
of the workarounds here. The issue seems to stem from the fact that
Sourceforge redirects to another URL to force the use of a mirror.
Because it appears that libcurl isn't maintaining cookies between
requests, the download of each font is subject to a potential change of
mirror. This seems to confuse the process and ends up with a combination
of spurious errors such as HTTP range checks, HTTPS not being compiled
in, and hash mismatches. From what I can see, if a cookie could be
maintained between requests, this would potentially solve the issue.
Potentially.

The solution which ultimately worked for me was to pull the following
file out of the deb archive...

   /usr/share/package-data-downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer

...and bypass the Sourceforge address completely. For example, change
the andale32.exe URL to the following:

http://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/downloads.sourceforge.net/c/co/corefonts/the
fonts/final/andale32.exe

Once the deb was rebuilt, the installation worked consistently every
time. Clearly, this is a bodge which works for me in my location but it
does appear to prove where the issue is.

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Title:
  [server] package ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 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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