Thank you for the replies. In fact, that bug doesn't affect me any more,
since I am free from that f. firewall.
Anyway, for the sake of making Ubuntu better, there it goes my reply to
Steve Langasek:
I completely agree with you that the installation must be as easy and
non-interrupted as possible
We don't want to show such a question by default, that would interrupt
the flow of the install in the common case. You can always get to this
question with 'dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer'.
** Changed in: msttcorefonts (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Low
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"The installer should have shown you a dialog asking you the following question:
If you have already downloaded Microsoft's TrueType Core Fonts for the web,
type the name of the directory which contains them. Those files are in the
Microsoft Windows self-installing format, and are named andale32
Well, I couldn't use it because I didn't know that it was possible. And
I spent hours searching the Internet for such piece of information. All
that I found were several sites with people as lost as I, who know
nothing about such dir. That is why I suggested that this information
should be availabl
The installer already does that, that's where the msttcorefonts/dldir is
for. Why can't you use that?
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Allow local file search on msttcorefonts
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/246902
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