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and subject line Re: Bug#626661: ttf-mscorefonts-installer: URL to fetch fonts
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Package: ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Version: 3.3
Severity: important
Wondering why the installation of mscorefonts was taking too long
I checked the details and found that none of the fonts could be
retrieved from any of the URLs listed in
ttf-mscorefonts-installer.postinst.
The installer will go through all 12 URLs for each font file
which means a very long wait as the files are not retrievable from
any of them.
The first URL http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/
resolves to http://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/files/
but the files are now located at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/files/the%20fonts/final/
As a test I prepended the above URL into the installer's postinst file
and re-ran it (blah.postinst config) and it fetched and installed the
fonts.
Also I tried copying and pasting the various URLs with different
paths appended to see if any of them would bring up a list of the
font exe files. Didn't work as they all resolved to the first
sourceforge.net URL mentioned above.
Methinks the postinst file may have to be changed to use the single
URL that works.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages ttf-mscorefonts-installer depends on:
ii cabextract 1.3-1 a program to extract Microsoft Cab
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy
ii defoma 0.11.11 Debian Font Manager -- automatic f
ii wget 1.12-2.1 retrieves files from the web
ii xfonts-utils 1:7.5+2 X Window System font utility progr
Versions of packages ttf-mscorefonts-installer recommends:
ii ttf-liberation 1.05.2.20091019-4squeeze1 Fonts with the same metrics as Tim
ii x-ttcidfont-co 32 TrueType and CID fonts configurati
ttf-mscorefonts-installer suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
msttcorefonts/dlurl:
msttcorefonts/savedir:
msttcorefonts/http_proxy: http://192.168.0.1:3128/
msttcorefonts/baddldir:
msttcorefonts/dldir:
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--- Begin Message ---
On Sun, August 14, 2011 06:29, Marc Williams wrote:
>> I cannot reproduce this report I'm afraid. The packages download just
>> fine
>> here and I also got no other reports. Perhaps this was just a transient
>> problem on the side of SF.net. Can you confirm that it works for you at
>> this time?
>
> My apologies for not seeing your reply sooner and another apology for the
> late reply (the email addy I used is only when I'm in Slackware, next
> time I'll use my universal Gmail addy).
>
> You're quite right about the problem in May probably being a
> transient problem with SF.net.
> A recent installation of ttf-mscorefonts went just fine.
>
> Next time more patience on my end when something doesn't go right. :-)
No problem at all. I'm closing the bug.
Thijs
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