msttcorefonts failed to install

Thanks for your report! Your internet connection seems to time out on the SourceForge servers, which might not be related to the mstcorefonts package as such. Can you download - for example - the file http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe manually (through Firefox, wget or so)?

Msttcorefonts downloads the fonts from the Sourceforge servers but seems to ignore the proxy settings (according to bug #56880). If you are behind a proxy this bug is a duplicate of that one. Can you confirm this?

Was able to download and install the andale file by clicking on the
link.

On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 15:01 +0000, Roel Huybrechts wrote:
> Thanks for your report! Your internet connection seems to time out on
> the SourceForge servers, which might not be related to the mstcorefonts
> package as such. Can you download - for example - the file
> http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
> manually (through Firefox, wget or so)?
>
>
> ** Changed in: msttcorefonts (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Roel Huybrechts (rulus)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

I am not behind a proxy that I know of.

On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 21:21 +0000, Roel Huybrechts wrote:
> Msttcorefonts downloads the fonts from the Sourceforge servers but seems
> to ignore the proxy settings (according to bug #56880). If you are
> behind a proxy this bug is a duplicate of that one. Can you confirm
> this?
>

I had the same problem with 7.10 msttcorefonts and sourceforge. Seems it was a dns lookup problem in my Ubuntu system. After following these instructions (for edit I used sudo gedit) I downloaded the fonts no problems. : -

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=574180
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Edit /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
Add this line at the end of the file:

prepend domain-name-servers xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;

replace the xxx with your DNS's IP addresses. I have two of them.
After rebooting, this IP's are added to resolv.conf on reboot, and everything works fine.
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i had the same problem,tried everything then i bypass my router, and msttcorefonts installed without a problem.

I had a problem with installation msttcorefonts 2.2 trying to connect to empty proxy : "Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name".
I don't connect through proxy but use router.
This worked for my (comment line 57 - "export http_proxy" in /var/lib/dpkg/info/msttcorefonts.postinst):

      sudo sed -e 's/export\ http_proxy/#export\ http_proxy/' -i.old /var/lib/dpkg/info/msttcorefonts.postinst
      sudo apt-get install -f

Don't know if it works for proxy connections. If not run this and it will restore original file:

      sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/msttcorefonts.postinst.old /var/lib/dpkg/info/msttcorefonts.postinst

I'm closing this report because it was due to a dns lookup failure (Resolving easynews.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Connection timed out. ) and was confirmed by the other reporters.

Pixo, you problem is not related to this report. If it's still an issue then fill a new report but as said Roel it's very close to bug 56880.

Thanks for your time and don't hesitate to submit any new bug.

Pixo your issue is most probably bug 221230