Corefonts installer message

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Hi all,

is anyone else getting this message?:

When I open Synaptic I get the following and as you can see, it is already there, when I click on "Run this action now", it doesn't do anything?. It isn't a problem as I just close it anyway! (The app "ttf-mscorefonts-installer" is the frontend for the corefonts downloader!):

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Hi wolfman

I don’t even show that package as installed.

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Hi @wolfman,

No, all is normal with my entire family’s ttf-mscorefonts-installer; and we do all have that package installed. If it doesn’t correct itself, you would tell me to reinstall that package… correct? :grin:

Please let me know if that package is misbehaving; for we (two of us), as college students, rely on our ttf-mscorefonts big time! :boy:

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I have just this minute re-installed the package and now it has actually downloaded something (installed the fonts), so I will have to wait and see if the problem is solved, like I said before, it isn’t a problem for me. :smiley:

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Hmmmm!, I just got this message:

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Hi @wolfman, I’m assuming that this doesnt have anything to do with signing the requisite MS licensing agreement which a lot of folks don’t see (or remember) to toggle… :construction_worker:

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Hi @mated,

no!, I did agree to the license agreement!:

I always say yes so that shouldn’t be a problem, a good thought though!. :smiley:

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The installer actually downloads .exe files from sourceforge. It seems to be so that these files cannot be downloaded at that moment.

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I have it on both of my PC’s and it is only happening on my HP rig?. :smiley:

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Since I re-installed and did a couple of new starts, it seems to have stopped now!. I will mark this as solved anyway and if it pops up again, shoot the on-screen message!. :smiley:

The MS fonts are not really a biggy for me, they auto install with my apps meta-command list!. :smiley:

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I had that too one time, it worked perfectly on my desktop but got the error on my laptop. When I tried to download the .exe files from Sourceforge I got an 404-error message.

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It popped up again a few minutes ago, tried to download for a few seconds and then gave up the ghost!. I am not worried about it, it isn’t important for me but as @mated pointed out, it is for he and his wife!. I have a sneaky suspicion that it has something to do with Germlins in my system but I’ve yet to prove this theory!. :smiley:

I think I will just remove it and then it is “problem solved” for me!. :smiley:

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