Following suggestion work for me " I did a: dpkg-reconfigure -plow --force ttf-mscorefonts-installer
to remove the proxy from the settings and the package was installed successfully." I hadn't set any proxy, but the issue was proxy related, as I got following error messages: "Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name." -- package ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.0 failed to install/upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/464422 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs