Still broken in 16.10 (yakkety).

[...]
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading 
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
  404  Not Found
W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file 
'/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/andale32.exe' couldn't 
be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
E: Failed to fetch 
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the?download&failedmirror=vorboss.dl.sourceforge.net
  404  Not Found
E: Download Failed

Workaround: Use the Debian package instead (or completely replace Ubuntu with 
Debian while you're at it ...).
wget 
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/m/msttcorefonts/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb

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