Hi Julie, I know vastly less than you, so your news is actually most reassuring to me! Thanks.
Larry Sherk On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 7:54 AM, Julie Brandon < [email protected]> wrote: > Unfortunately the sourceforge links this relies on are now EXCEPTIONALLY > unreliable and have been for the last few weeks - for me and I'm sure > most everyone else most download attempts fail considerably more often > than they succeed now (and this is on a well behaved, rock solid, fibre > connection.) > > Given that 10 or so successful downloads are required for this installer > to complete, and most times individual downloads fail, and any > individual download failing causes the process to fail, successful > installation is now essentially impossible for me and many others - mine > and others' systems have been stuck on the repeated "Failure to download > extra files" dialogs for a while now. > > :( > > Given that it makes this package currently uninstallable and the > considerable heat this is receiving, I'm struggling to see how this can > be regarded as only medium priority now. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a > duplicate bug report (1644582). > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1607535 > > Title: > ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts > and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian > > Status in msttcorefonts package in Ubuntu: > Confirmed > > Bug description: > As noted in > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts/+ > bug/1371783/comments/45, > the current 3.4 version of ttf-mscorefonts-installer searches for the > font files in an incorrect network location. The consequence of this > is that the core fonts are never installed. > > The Debian (upstream) version 3.6 of ttf-mscorefonts-installer > searches for the font files in the correct network location, and will > successfully install the core fonts. > > This problem occurs with Ubuntu 16.04 as of July 2016. (And with > earlier versions, including current LTS.) > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts/+ > bug/1607535/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1607535 Title: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 fails to install core fonts and should be updated to version 3.6 from Debian To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts/+bug/1607535/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
