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[Horst Schirmeier <horst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1022891

Title:
  Regression bug: can't preseed download location

Status in msttcorefonts package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  For some time already we have been using preseed to specify our local
  repository containing the Microsoft fonts. The main reason for this is
  that we have a pretty complicated proxy environment and it's much
  easier to provide the local repository directly.

  So we have used those preseed entries:
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer msttcorefonts/dlurl string http://@HOSTNAME@@DIRECTORY@/msttcorefonts/
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer msttcorefonts/accepted-mscorefonts-eula boolean true

  The postinst script says it all:
  # FIXME: we don't have a way to use an alternate download source here.
  db_get msttcorefonts/dlurl
  URLOVERRIDE=$RET

  The rules file seems to generate a static URLROOT pointing to
  http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/ and the URLOVERRIDE is
  ignored.

  Our 12.04 workstations have some real issues with that. We have not
  worked that around yet.

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