Failure to download extra data files with ttf-mscorefonts-installer on Ubuntu 16.04

Submitted by Serguei_Tarassov on

An annoying problem due to invalid download links in the package. The Debian package was fixed already.

Solution for Ubuntu.

1. Download ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb package from Debian site into your Downloads folder

2. Start terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and type:

sudo apt-get remove --purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer
cd ~/Downloads
sudo dpkg -i ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb