[Bug 1767748] Re: package ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.6ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: installed ttf-mscorefonts-installer package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1

[Ron Johnson]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1713615 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1713615

It's still happening in April 2019.

ron at haggis:~/pia_1.1.1$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall ttf-mscorefonts-installer
[sudo] password for ron: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 27.6 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/multiverse amd64 ttf-mscorefonts-installer all 3.6ubuntu2 [27.6 kB]
Fetched 27.6 kB in 0s (124 kB/s)                     
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 339195 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6ubuntu2_all.deb ...
mscorefonts-eula license has already been accepted
Unpacking ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.6ubuntu2) over (3.6ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.192.1.5) ...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=managedway.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 208.79.213.6 443]
E: Failed to fetch https://managedway.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe  Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=managedway.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 208.79.213.6 443]
E: Download Failed
Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.6ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.12.6-0ubuntu2) ...

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Title:
  package ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.6ubuntu2 failed to
  install/upgrade: installed ttf-mscorefonts-installer package post-
  installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1

Status in msttcorefonts package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Error occurred during 18.04 upgrade to 18.04. Tried download after
  reboot but failed;

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.6ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Apr 28 19:25:34 2018
  ErrorMessage: installed ttf-mscorefonts-installer package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-05-24 (1070 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.6, Python 3.6.5, python3-minimal, 3.6.5-3
  PythonDetails: /usr/bin/python2.7, Python 2.7.15rc1, python-minimal, 2.7.15~rc1-1
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   dpkg 1.19.0.5ubuntu2
   apt  1.6.1
  SourcePackage: msttcorefonts
  Title: package ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.6ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: installed ttf-mscorefonts-installer package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-04-29 (0 days ago)

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