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On 18.04: when I do sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer & say Yes to the EULA question, it fails:

Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe
  Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=netix.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 87.121.121.2 443]
E: Failed to fetch https://netix.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/arial32.exe  Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=netix.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 87.121.121.2 443]
E: Download Failed
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John Rose
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  • @user68186: doesn't appear to be the same error. Am I correct in stating that the problem is with Sourceforge? – John Rose Feb 14 '19 at 17:44
  • Some of the answers to the question I linked above tells you how to directly download the exe file and extract the contents manually. It may very well be a a change in Sourceforge. If it is, the maintainer of the ttf-mscorefonts-installer has to update the code to fix the problem. However, that would be a bug-report for that package. Bug reports are off topic here as well. – user68186 Feb 14 '19 at 17:54
  • See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs – user68186 Feb 14 '19 at 17:55
  • It works fine with me on 18.04. No error with sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer, installed properly. – Vijay Feb 14 '19 at 17:55
  • @VeeJay The question is off-topic if the problem can't be reproduced. – user68186 Feb 14 '19 at 17:58
  • @VeeJay: it worked for me on 18.04 when I used it last year (June I think). – John Rose Feb 14 '19 at 18:02

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howefield on Ubuntu Forums, provided answer: Create a folder in ~/home called mscorefonts and download the fonts from : https://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/files/the%20fonts/final/ and store them in the /home/$USER/mscorefonts folder that you created earlier, then run..

sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer

You should be prompted to give the path for the downloaded files and the rest should be self explanatory. I then ran 

sudo fc-cache -f -v" which worked Ok
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