failed to install msttcorefonts
Hi to Everyone,
On my desktop running under Debian Sarge, I had no problem installing
'msttecorefonts', which was done about 18 months ago. However, now, on
my laptop under Etch, I can't get those fonts installed. Upon launching:
#apt-get install msttcorefonts
the install process started allright, it even seemed to end OK.. except
for one thing :
'warning: /usr/share/fonts/X11/truetype does not exist or is not a
directory'
'warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/truetype does not exist or is not a directory'
These directories don't exist indeed... but they don't exist either on
my desktop, where the install was no problem.
Anyway, these were just warnings. After these two lines of warning, here
is what came next :
'These fonts were provided by Microsoft "in the interest of
cross-platform compatibility". This is no longer the case, but they are
still available from third parties. You are free to download these fonts
and use them for your own use, but you may not redistribute them in
modified form, including changes to the file name or packaging format.'
Once this had been displayed, a download process automatically started,
and it went like this :
--21:12:19--
http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
=> './andale32.exe'
Resolving surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Connexion terminated
because of waiting time delay expired
and then the process restarted at another address, then a third and a
forth one etc... with always the same failure about expiring waiting
time for resolving. here are the various addresses that have been
attempted by the system :
http://optusnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
http://puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
http://belnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe
After all these failed trials, it said :
andale32.exe: No such file or directory
All done, errors in processing 1 file
dpkg : error in treating msttcorefonts (--configure) : post install
sub-process script has returned an error code (1)
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1).
True type fonts are not available. If there is an error in a config
file, I don't know where to find it, and, in any case, I wouldn't know
what http addresses to write instead of those that failed...
Ever since then, I have tried a few more things. The addresses up there
are good, since I can connect and download each font using my web
browser or wget, but it does not work through the debian package font
downloading program, even though the package itself does dowload
allright from the debian site. I have tried this several times,
alterning apt-get install and apt-get remove. Later on, I decided to
test what would happen if I dowloaded the 'Lenny' version of
msttcorefonts, thus I temporarily changed a few lines in my
/etc/apt/sources.list, and tried a new install. This did not work any
better, and the problem was the same, even though the error messages
were slightly different. My new problem is that, once back to my former
/etc/apt/sources.list file mentioning Debian Etch instead of Lenny, not
only can't I install msttcorefonts, yet I can no longer remove either,
both processes return errors.
Thanks in advance for your help
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