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On 18.04: when I do sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer & say Yes to the EULA question, it fails:

Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe
  Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=netix.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 87.121.121.2 443]
E: Failed to fetch https://netix.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/arial32.exe  Redirection from https to 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mirrorproblem?failedmirror=netix.dl.sourceforge.net' is forbidden [IP: 87.121.121.2 443]
E: Download Failed
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howefield on Ubuntu Forums, provided answer: Create a folder in ~/home called mscorefonts and download the fonts from : https://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/files/the%20fonts/final/ and store them in the /home/$USER/mscorefonts folder that you created earlier, then run..

sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer

You should be prompted to give the path for the downloaded files and the rest should be self explanatory. I then ran 

sudo fc-cache -f -v" which worked Ok
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