Failure to download extra data files - ttf-mscorefonts-installer

Launchpad bug #1607535 #1651923 is fixed in the “updates” repositories of Apt for Xenial and Yakkety.

1. If you're on Ubuntu Xenial or later (16.04+) make sure that the “updates” repository is enabled and update the repository information and your packages:

   sudo apt update
   sudo apt upgrade -f
   

   This tells Apt to

   • upgrade all packages that can be replaced trivially by a new version, and
   • try to fix all inconsistent packages in the process (-f).

2. If the fixed versions are not available for your Ubuntu release you can download the Debian version of ttf-mscorefonts-installer which doesn't suffer from this bug and install it with Software Center or on the command-line.

Had the same problem, found a solution in the web that worked for me, the other "solutions" did not work:

wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/m/msttcorefonts/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb

sudo dpkg -i ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb