Dirty solved by doing this: mkdir ~/mscorefonts~/mscorefonts cp /usr/share/package-data-downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer ~/mscorefonts chenged with editor the content add wget in front to the fonts urls wget http://... , removed the hash row; run it with : sh mscorefonts to donwload the exe fonts with wget
get the font dir with pwd then reconfigured the package, telling the font dirs sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer All done... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1009436 Title: package-data-downloader hangs forever when attempting to download through cntlm proxy To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cntlm/+bug/1009436/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs