ongoing problem with ttf-mscorefonts-installer

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 04 Jan 2017 11:46:31 +0000, Adam Funk wrote:
>On 2016-12-12, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>> On Mo, 2016-12-12 at 12:29 +0000, Adam Funk wrote:  
>>> For several weeks now, I've been getting stuff like this in the
>>> cron.daily output on one machine (but not another) running 16.04.
>>>   
>> Related bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1607535  
>
>Is there a workaround for it, like manually downloading the file &
>sticking it in the right place?

There are several solutions. Get the Ubuntu source and fix the
package [1] or install the files manually and build an empty dummy
package with equivs [2].

[1]
  apt-get source <package>
see also
  https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/msttcorefonts

[2]
  https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-helpers.en.html