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Installing msttcorefonts without a (working) internet connection



On 07/05/2015 12:22 PM, mudongliang wrote:
> 2015-07-05 18:16:27 (57.2 KB/s) - Read error at byte 40290/198384
> (Success). Giving up.

So if your internet connection doesn't work properly when downloading
the fonts in postinst, you can also install the fonts manually and
you don't even need an internet connection during the postinst of the
Debian package.

You do need to have an internet connection at one point where you
download the corresponding files. Please go to
http://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/files/the%20fonts/final/
and download the following files:
andale32.exe
arial32.exe
arialb32.exe
comic32.exe
courie32.exe
georgi32.exe
impact32.exe
times32.exe
trebuc32.exe
verdan32.exe
webdin32.exe

You can also do that from another computer where the download works
and transfer them e.g. via USB stick.

You should then put them in e.g. /usr/local/share/corefonts and then
you can tell the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package where to find
those fonts (as root, before installing ttf-mscorefonts-installer):

echo "ttf-mscorefonts-installer msttcorefonts/dldir string /usr/local/share/corefonts" | debconf-set-selections

(replace the directory by the one you chose)

Then you can just install the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package and
it will take the fonts from that directory instead of downloading
them during postinst.

If postinst of ttf-mscorefonts-installer already failed (like it did
in your case), you can still do that debconf-set-selections line and
just retry the installation of the package (e.g. via
dpkg --configure -pending).

Hope that helps.

Christian

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