Mscorefonts problems

Same problem, found a solution

1. Install the package ttf-mscorefonts-installer, we need some things from the package later

   sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
   

2. Download and install the fonts

   TMP=$(mktemp -d)
   cd "$TMP"
   awk '/Url/ {system("wget "$2)}' /usr/share/package-data-downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer
   sudo /usr/lib/msttcorefonts/update-ms-fonts "$TMP"/*
   

3. Avoid future error message

   sudo touch /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer
   

4. Housekeeping

   cd ..
   rm -r "$TMP"
   

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Problem solved ;)

I fixed it.

Download and install this via software-center and boom! It's working :D

A straight-forward option work-around can be implemented as follows using a Debian repo (reliable):

sudo apt-get -y remove --purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/m/msttcorefonts/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb -P ~/Downloads
sudo apt install ~/Downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb

Hopefully, the Ubuntu repo version will be fixed soon.