This is an old problem that deserves a bugfix, but it's getting beyond a joke now and I can't seem to work around it.  I keep getting the dreaded failed To download extra data files error in relation to ttf-mscorefonts-installer:    Repeatedly asking it to try again doesn't help, additionally, repeatedly trying-  sudo rm -rf /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/* sudo apt-get --purge --reinstall install ttf-mscorefonts-installer   Isn't working either.  I just get at least one 404 error from one of the sourceforge links that stops it working-  Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 20 not to upgrade. Need to get 0 B/29.5 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 352049 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.4+nmu1ubuntu2_all.deb ... mscorefonts-eula license has already been accepted Unpacking ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) over (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.11.94-0ubuntu1.1) ... Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (3.168.2) ... ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing... ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe [198 kB] Fetched 198 kB in 0s (339 kB/s)                                                 W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/andale32.exe' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied) ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe [554 kB] Fetched 554 kB in 0s (575 kB/s)                                                 W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/arial32.exe' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied) ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arialb32.exe Get:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arialb32.exe [168 kB] Fetched 168 kB in 0s (306 kB/s)                                                 W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/arialb32.exe' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied) ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/comic32.exe Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/comic32.exe   404  Not Found W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/comic32.exe' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied) E: Failed to fetch https://netix.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/comic32.exe  404  Not Found  E: Download Failed Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ...   The specific point at which it fails to download changed - it seems to be a sourceforge reliability problem, but this has now been going on weeks and results in annoying popups as above all the time.  How do we get this fixed and/or how can I work around it for now.
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I have been receiving notifications about "failure to download extra data files" from update notifier. It asked me to download fonts in request from the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package. However, whenever I click on the "run this action now", a window pop up (see figure below) and it never got downloaded.     It keeps "waiting for headers" until timeout. Same thing will happen if I use the wget in terminal to download the package:  wget downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe --2016-05-02 11:57:32--  http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net (downloads.sourceforge.net)... 216.34.181.59 Connecting to downloads.sourceforge.net (downloads.sourceforge.net)|216.34.181.59|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response...    It will fail again.   I have noticed similar issues like , but the known solutions never worked on me. The wired thing is that I can download the font package from a browser like Chrome, and run the following command to fix the font problem:  sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer   with the fonts folder directed. But my question is do I have any problem with my package-data-downloader and terminal configuration? The sudo apt-get update command can run with a few errors and warning showing that but generally it can download data from internet. It only fails when the terminal connect to sourceforge or maybe similar websites.   Hopefully you have some idea on how to make the download from terminal work for all cases. Let me know what else information I can provide. Thanks!
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the following error is preventing me from installing anything on Xubuntu 11.10. How can I fix it??  $ sudo apt-get install meld Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done meld is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Setting up flashplugin-downloader (11.0.1.152ubuntu1) ... Downloading... --2012-02-06 21:23:36--  http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_11.0.1.152.orig.tar.gz Resolving archive.canonical.com... 91.189.88.33 Connecting to archive.canonical.com|91.189.88.33|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2012-02-06 21:23:36 ERROR 404: Not Found.  download failed The Flash plugin is NOT installed. dpkg: error processing flashplugin-downloader (--configure):  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing:  flashplugin-downloader E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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I'm sure this is a newbie question, but I can't figure this out. I have tried to follow the advice here:  and here:   But I can not seem to be able to generate any font change. I either get no change or error messages.  Here is the output of one failed attempt to change the font to Times using this command:  \rmfamily \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{ptm}     Apparently I either don't have a correct package installed or...  The output says " Metric (TFM) file not found." but I am not sure where to go from there.
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I'm getting the following error when trying to compile the following very minimal example with MiKTeX:  \documentclass{article}  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{kpfonts}  \begin{document} test \end{document}   The error I get is  hb/AppData/Local/MiKTeX/2.9/pdftex/config/pdftex.map}] (D:\dump\tex\tmp\test.aux) )Trying to make PK font jkpmn8r at 600 DPI... Running miktex-makemf.exe... miktex-makemf: The jkpmn8r source file could not be found. Running ttf2pk.exe... miktex-makepk: PK font jkpmn8r could not be created.  !pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file jkpmn8r): Font jkpmn8r at 600 not found  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!  It compiles perfectly on my Ubuntu machine with TeX Live 2011, but not on my Windows machine with MiKTeX 2.9 (just updated all packages as well).  I detected this when trying to compile my thesis on my Windows machine, which produced the following error:  [5 ! pdfTeX error (font expansion): auto expansion is only possible with scalable fonts. \@EveryShipout@Output ...@Org@Shipout \box \@cclv  l.47  !  ==&gt; Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!   It appears it has something to do with the kpfonts package since the minimal example compiles when I comment it out, but why does it work on my Ubuntu machine then?
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I have four build servers that were all setup the same originally.  We've been using them to cross-compile C projects.  I'm trying to update them compile C++ natively as well.  Two of the servers I was able to install g++ on with no problem, the other two though give me 404 errors.  $ sudo apt-get install g++ Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed:   g++-7 libstdc++-7-dev Suggested packages:   g++-multilib g++-7-multilib gcc-7-doc libstdc++6-7-dbg libstdc++-7-doc The following NEW packages will be installed:   g++ g++-7 libstdc++-7-dev 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. Need to get 9,043 kB of archives. After this operation, 40.7 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Err:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 libstdc++-7-dev amd64 7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04   404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.149 80] Err:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 g++-7 amd64 7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04   404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.149 80] Err:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 g++ amd64 4:7.4.0-1ubuntu2.2   404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.149 80] E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gcc-7/libstdc++-7-dev_7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04_amd64.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.149 80] E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gcc-7/g++-7_7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04_amd64.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.149 80] E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gcc-defaults/g++_7.4.0-1ubuntu2.2_amd64.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.149 80] E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?   I have confirmed that all four report the same version info.  $ uname -a Linux build_server4 4.15.0-48-generic #51-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 3 08:28:49 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description:    Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS Release:        18.04 Codename:       bionic
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I tried to compile  example but the LaTeX compiler gives the following errors. What can I do?  name = tngani, rootname = tngani, pointsize = mktexmf: empty or non-existent rootfile!  Cannot find font tngani in map file(s).  kpathsea: Running mktexmf tngani.mf The command name is  C:\texlive\2011\bin\win32\mktexmf Cannot find tngani.mf . I try ps2pk --&gt; gsftopk --&gt; ttf2pk --&gt; hbf2gf. ps2pk cannot be used. I try gsftopk. gsftopk.exe tngani 1650 gsftopk cannot be used. Next I try ttf2pk. ttf2pk.exe -q tngani 1650 ttf2pk failed. Finally I try hbf2gf. hbf2gf.exe -q -p tngani 1650 All trials failed. kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 2+450/600 --dpi 1650 tngani The command name is C:\texlive\2011\bin\win32\mktexpk  kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.  Process exited with error(s)   Here is the code:  \documentclass{minimal} \usepackage[annataritalic]{tengwarscript}  \begin{document}  \tengwarannataritalic[2.5] \tengwa{254} \Textendedcalma\TTthreedots\Tnuumen\Tessenuquerna\TTthreedots\Tungwe\Tando\Toore\TTrightcurl\Tumbar\Ttinco\TTthreedots\Tlambealt\TTrightcurl\Tquesse\TTdoublerightcurl \Tromanperiod\Ts \Textendedcalma\TTthreedots\Tnuumen\Tessenuquerna\TTthreedots\Tungwe\Tungwe\Tumbar\TTnasalizer\TTdot\Ttinco\TTthreedots\Tlambe\TTrightcurl \tengwa{255}\\ \Textendedcalma\TTthreedots\Tnuumen\Tessenuquerna\TTthreedots\Tungwe\Tthuule\Troomen\Tquesse\TTthreedots\Ttinco\TTthreedots\Tlambealt\TTrightcurl\Tquesse\TTdoublerightcurl \Tromanperiod\Ts \Textendedungwe\TTthreedots\Tumbar\Toore\TTrightcurl\Tesse\Tkern{-0.2}\Tmalta\TTrightcurl\Textendedcalma\TTdot\Ttelco\TTdot\Tquesse\Troomen\Tparma\TTnasalizer\TTdot\Ttinco\TTthreedots\Tlambe\TTrightcurl \end{document}
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I'm using the latest version of MacTeX 2013 on OS X 10.8.4. All of my Tex Live packages are fully up-to-date. Tex Live also lists the fontawesome package as installed. I'm trying to use the FontAwesome font with XeLatex or LuaLatex and getting font-not-found errors. The exact message is: kpathsea: Running mktexmf FontAwesome ! I can't find file `FontAwesome'.  There's a longer traceback which I am omitting for brevity. Let me know if it's needed to resolve this problem. I have already tried running the following commands, to no avail: sudo -H mktexlsr sudo -H updmap-sys  Other than the above two commands, this is a 100% new out-of-the-box installation, with no modifications whatsoever. Here's a minimal broken example: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontawesome}  \begin{document} \faTwitter \end{document}  How can I add this missing font? Edit (Q1 2021): Please see Justin Curry's answer regarding an update to the package name from fontawesome to fontawesome5.
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I am getting this error in Ubuntu 12.04 , while doing the below operation.     frank@august:~$ sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer [sudo] password for frank:  E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct    the problem.  frank@august:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0045' near line 0:  newline in field name `#padding' frank@august:~$    &amp;  frank@august:~$ head /var/lib/dpkg/updates/0045 #padding #padding #padding #padding  frank@august:~$    I can't see where is the error , help me to solve this. Thank you.
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I am attempting to install the MS Core fonts on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and am running into the following error:  vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:~$ sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:  The following packages have unmet dependencies:  ttf-mscorefonts-installer : Depends: cabextract but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.   Running dpkg --get-selections | grep hold doesn't return anything and I can't find a package in apt-get called cabextract.  From everything I've Googled, installing the MS Core fonts is relatively straightforward, so I'm a tad lost.  How can I resolve this issue and install the core fonts?  Edit:  Here's my /etc/apt/sources.list file  ############################################################# ################### OFFICIAL UBUNTU REPOS ################### #############################################################  ###### Ubuntu Main Repos deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted multiverse  ###### Ubuntu Update Repos deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security main restricted multiverse deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main restricted multiverse
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I uploaded some font files to AWS (running Amazon Linux) and moved them to the /usr/share/fonts directory using a cp command in .ebextensions. When I SSH in from my mac and use ls -a, I see some files are colored differently - one set of font files is black while others are green. I'm curious what caused this to be so, and if it will create any problems for my code.   From  I found this key on how to interpret these colours. I can't understand why a .ttf would be executable or why one set of .ttfs would be recognized and not another.  Blue: Directory Green: Executable or recognized data file Sky Blue: Linked file Yellow with black background: Device Pink: Graphic image file Red: Archive file  These files were all downloaded to a mac from various font sites before uploading.
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The problem is: where one can read precise instruction on how to  effectively install Windows "Truefonts" (.ttf files) in TeX Live LaTeX environment installed in Windows XP? But please, do not drive me to  (from the other hand valuable) article written by S. Kroonenberg called . I know it.
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Any time I try to install software or updates, I get the following message (or a slight variation):  dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 10650 package 'libreoffige-writev': field name `Replaces&gt;' must be followed by colon   I have no idea what it means, but it always insists that `Replaces&gt;' be followed by a colon.
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I would like to install the MS Truetype Fonts that come through the package ttf-mscorefonts-installer, so I did:  sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer   Accepting the license, the process completes without any errors. The fonts end up in     /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts   as expected. Just to be sure, I also did a  sudo fc-cache -f -s -v   which among other things says in its output:     /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts: caching, new cache contents: 60 fonts, 0 dirs   So far, so good (and inline with question ) However, when I then open any font dialog (e.g. in OpenOffice or the font dialog of the terminal) I don't see all of the new fonts. For Arial, the standard form is missing, but bold and italic are there. Times New Roman is missing altogether.  I can use nautilus to browse to the font directory, double click the Arial.ttf file and see the font in all its beauty. I can even click the install button then and the font is copied over to my personal ./fonts directory and from there on visible to my apps. But it is not picked up from the system directory.  How do I get these fonts available system-wide for all users?
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I have been running Ubuntu 12.04 for the past few weeks. I recently tried to download and install some files through the Update Manager. It located a few files, downloaded them, but then failed to install them. It gave the error:  installArchives() failed: (Reading database ...  (Reading database ... 80% dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:  reading files list for package 'libasn1-8-heimdal': Input/output error   I tried using apt-get upgrade but a similar error was produced:  Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded:   icedtea-6-jre-cacao icedtea-6-jre-jamvm openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless   openjdk-6-jre-lib 5 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/34.6 MB of archives. After this operation, 1,024 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 80% dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:  reading files list for package 'libasn1-8-heimdal': Input/output error E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)   Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.  Edit: Here's some extra information that may be useful. My original problem was that the Ubuntu Software Centre would not open. I found that the Update Manager and Synaptic Package Manager also failed to open. They all gave an error along the lines of:   "installArchives() failed: dpkg: error: reading package info file '/var/lib/dpkg/available': Input/output errorError in function:"   After much googling I seemed to fix that problem as the package managers would open again. When I then tried to download and install any updates from the Update Manager I got the error at the beginning of this post.
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This question and answer is a response to a request from Joseph Wright.   Why shouldn't I use getnonfreefonts to install additional fonts? Why shouldn't I use updmap when installing or removing fonts?     Background  There are a number of questions on the site concerning problems caused by people installing additional fonts and using updmap to update the 'map' files on which TeX depends.  One common cause of these problems is the use of getnonfreefonts.  Other causes are the use of other font installation scripts or executing updmap directly.
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Hi I tried to install the package by  tlmgr install dsfont   but I only get  tlmgr: package repository http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet package dsfont not present in package repository.   I also installed the package doublestroke since I read somewhere that this package contains dsfont, but if I include dsfont I still get an error message..  Does anyone know how to help me?
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I freshly installed 'basic' version of TeX Live 2012 (not full, only basic version).  I have following line in my code: \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}  I get following error:  (/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty (/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def) /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty:100: Font T1/cmr/ m/n/10=ecrm1000 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. &lt;to be read again&gt;                     relax  l.100 \fontencoding\encodingdefault\selectfont  /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty:100:  ==&gt; Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!   I understand that some packages are missing, however I do not know which ones.  Also, solution to this problem on most of the earlier posts is to install ubuntu latex recommended package, however please note that I am not using LaTeX from Ubuntu's software center (which is old TeX Live 2009) but rather have manually installed basic version of TeX Live 2012 as per instructions here:   Please let me know how do I solve this issue (I don't want to install complete version of TeX Live 2012, only those packages necessary to run this piece of code).