[PLUG] What does this message mean?

tim at wescottdesign.com tim at wescottdesign.com
Mon Jan 16 21:31:20 UTC 2017


I tell it "download now" and it grinds away for a while, then pops up 
the same message.

Maybe it's a permissions thing (oh joy).

On 2017-01-16 12:31, Bruce Kilpatrick wrote:
> It is trying to install a package of M$ fonts (I think from the
> restricted repository).  I told it to download now, and it finished
> the installation.
> 
> Bruce
> 
> On 01/16/2017 10:04 AM, Tim Wescott wrote:
>> I keep getting this message from the Ubuntu 16.04 package upgrader:
>> 
>> quote -->
>> 
>> Failure to download extra data files
>> 
>> The following packages requested additional data downloads after
>> package installation, but the data could not be downloaded or could 
>> not
>> be processed.
>> 
>> ttf-mscorefonts-installer
>> 
>> The download will be attempted again later, or you can try the 
>> download
>> again now.  Running this command requires an active Internet
>> connection.
>> 
>> <-- unquote
>> 
>> Various light messing around with apt (update and upgrade, nothing
>> more) hasn't cleared the problem.
>> 




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