Bit of background:
My isp and Karmic don't get along for some reason, so my internet lookups are somewhat slow. I did the ipv6.disable=1 kernel argument, which makes firefox run without any noticeable lag, but I do see considerable lag anytime I use apt-get or synaptic.
So, on a recent install, I selected the kubuntu-restricted-extra packages and everything went along fine until it tried to do the setup of ttf-mscorefonts-installer. It seems this package needs/wants to download some extra files from sourceforge. actually, the file is andale32.exe
Well, the package manager doesn't quite have the timing right for my slow lookups, and I get a lot of connection timeouts. This causes the installer to fail, and I am left with an uninstalled package each time I try to install anything else, after a lengthy wait for everything to timeout.
I can and have done apt-get remove ttf-mscorefonts-installer
which removes it from the queue, but that leaves me without the fonts, if I were to want to use them.
here is the relative output from apt-get:
and this continues for a while.
I can actually get the file almost immediately with firefox, but I am not sure where to put it so apt can see that it is already there. I put it in /var/cache/apt/archives, but that didn't do anything.
What is also interesting to me is that my laptop with karmic on it managed to beat the timeout and install the fonts the first time. Could different ethernet cards produce different delays? My desktop uses the Realtec 8139, and the laptop uses an intel chip.
Anyway, back to the main question: is it possible to manually work with that .exe file to fake out apt somehow and get the fonts installed?
Thanks
My isp and Karmic don't get along for some reason, so my internet lookups are somewhat slow. I did the ipv6.disable=1 kernel argument, which makes firefox run without any noticeable lag, but I do see considerable lag anytime I use apt-get or synaptic.
So, on a recent install, I selected the kubuntu-restricted-extra packages and everything went along fine until it tried to do the setup of ttf-mscorefonts-installer. It seems this package needs/wants to download some extra files from sourceforge. actually, the file is andale32.exe
Well, the package manager doesn't quite have the timing right for my slow lookups, and I get a lot of connection timeouts. This causes the installer to fail, and I am left with an uninstalled package each time I try to install anything else, after a lengthy wait for everything to timeout.
I can and have done apt-get remove ttf-mscorefonts-installer
which removes it from the queue, but that leaves me without the fonts, if I were to want to use them.
here is the relative output from apt-get:
Code:
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Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.0) ...
-2009-11-21 02:28:48-- [url]http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe[/url]
Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net... failed: Connection timed out.
wget: unable to resolve host address `downloads.sourceforge.net'
--2009-11-21 02:28:58-- [url]http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe[/url]
Resolving switch.dl.sourceforge.net... 130.59.138.21, 2001:620:0:1b::21
Connecting to switch.dl.sourceforge.net|130.59.138.21|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: [url]http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe?download&failedmirror=switch.dl.sourceforge.net[/url] [following]
--2009-11-21 02:28:59-- [url]http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe?download&failedmirror=switch.dl.sourceforge.net[/url]
Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net... failed: Connection timed out.
wget: unable to resolve host address `downloads.sourceforge.net'
--2009-11-21 02:29:09-- [url]http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe[/url]
Resolving mesh.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Connection timed out.
wget: unable to resolve host address `mesh.dl.sourceforge.net'
--2009-11-21 02:29:19-- [url]http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe[/url]
Resolving dfn.dl.sourceforge.net... failed: Connection timed out.
wget: unable to resolve host address `dfn.dl.sourceforge.net'
--2009-11-21 02:29:29-- [url]http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe[/url]
Resolving heanet.dl.sourceforge.net... 193.1.193.66, 2001:770:18:aa40::c101:c142
Connecting to heanet.dl.sourceforge.net|193.1.193.66|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: [url]http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe?download&failedmirror=heanet.dl.sourceforge.net[/url] [following]
--2009-11-21 02:29:30-- [url]http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/andale32.exe?download&failedmirror=heanet.dl.sourceforge.net[/url]
Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net... failed: Connection timed out.
wget: unable to resolve host address `downloads.sourceforge.net'
****
I can actually get the file almost immediately with firefox, but I am not sure where to put it so apt can see that it is already there. I put it in /var/cache/apt/archives, but that didn't do anything.
What is also interesting to me is that my laptop with karmic on it managed to beat the timeout and install the fonts the first time. Could different ethernet cards produce different delays? My desktop uses the Realtec 8139, and the laptop uses an intel chip.
Anyway, back to the main question: is it possible to manually work with that .exe file to fake out apt somehow and get the fonts installed?
Thanks
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