The problem with #45 (and #47, and all the other proposed solutions) is
SourceForge, and nothing else. If SourceForge tries to direct you to a
nonexistent mirror, all solutions fail. If you try to download from
SourceForge and you get an advertising page instead of the file you
want, all the automated solutions fail.

The solution in #33 / #34 is fully automated but fails in the case where
SourceForge misbehaves.

As james-pic notes in #42 and I have noted, the only solution that will
always work requires that someone create a non-SourceForge repo for the
fonts. (And no, it makes no difference whatsoever which link you use.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/files/the%20fonts/final/ and
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/ point to the same location.)

Since james-pic has created such a non-SF repo (thanks!), his solution
should always work. It would be nice to see Ubuntu incorporate it.

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  package ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 (utopic) fails to
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