Hi to Everyone,

On my desktop running under Debian Sarge, I had no problem installing 'msttecorefonts', which was done about 18 months ago. However, now, on my laptop under Etch, I can't get those fonts installed. Upon launching:

#apt-get install msttcorefonts

the install process starts allright, it even seems to end OK.. except for one thing :

'warning: /usr/share/fonts/X11/truetype does not exist or is not a directory'
'warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/truetype does not exist or is not a directory'

These directories don't exist indeed... but they don't exist either on my desktop, where the install was no problem.

Anyway, these are just warnings. After these two lines of warning, here is what comes next :

'These fonts were provided by Microsoft "in the interest of cross-platform compatibility". This is no longer the case, but they are still available from third parties. You are free to download these fonts and use them for your own use, but you may not redistribute them in modified form, including changes to the file name or packaging format.'

Once this has been displayed, a download process automatically starts, and it goes like this :

--21:12:19-- http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
       => './andale32.exe'
Resolving surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Connexion terminated because of waiting time delay expired

and then the process restarts at another address, then a third and a forth one etc... with always the same failure about expiring waiting time for resolving. here are the various addresses that have been attempted by the system :

http://optusnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
http://puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
http://belnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe

After all these failed trials, it says :

andale32.exe: No such file or directory

All done, errors in processing 1 file
dpkg : error in treating msttcorefonts (--configure) : post install sub-process script has returned an error code (1)
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1).


True type fonts are not available. If there is an error in a config file, I don't know where to find it, and, in any case, I wouldn't know what http addresses to write instead of those that failed...

Thanks in advance for your help


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