Fonts do not download

I am not sure if this is an issue with the package or if that is a general sourceforge issue. I do have this problem several times with multiple packages from totally different repositories. For instance I failed to install gnuarmeclipse package for several weeks now. The only thing helped was to download and install manually.
Looks like sourceforge wants to drag people to the homepage to present all this advertisements while forcing them to the manual downloads... Looks like sf is not the right service anymore.

I get this using synaptic on a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64 bit.
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Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 508230 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 (3.168.3) ...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
404 Not Found
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)
E: Failed to fetch https://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe 404 Not Found

E: Download Failed
Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ...

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The URL in Err:1 works fine after redirect to download exe file, but looking for the file I found it only in https://sourceforge.net/projects/corefonts/files/the%20fonts/final/andale32.exe/download . I hope this helps.

UPDATE to above:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/766491/failure-to-download-extra-data-files-with-ttf-mscorefonts-installer-on-ubuntu

Has an answer that worked for me....

In terminal type...

wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/contrib/m/msttcorefonts/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb -P ~/Downloads

to get latest 3,6 version, then...

sudo apt install ~/Downloads/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb

to install it. This worked for my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64bit as of this posted date.

About an hour ago, I found exactly the same solution to fix the issue.
Forced installation of ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.6_all.deb solved the issue for me perfectly.

Over a month and no updates/resolution to this? Is this just a problem downloading files from SourceForge? Or is there something else that has changed causing this? I am seeing the same issue as of today, but it's ariel32.exe that is returning a 400 code:

bladernr@galactica:/var/log/apt$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 29.5 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/multiverse amd64 ttf-mscorefonts-installer all 3.4+nmu1ubuntu2 [29.5 kB]
Fetched 29.5 kB in 0s (37.8 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 380577 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 (3.168.3) ...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: processing...
ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
Err:1 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
400 Bad request
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)
E: Failed to fetch https://svwh.dl.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the fonts/final/andale32.exe 400 Bad request

E: Download Failed
Setting up ttf-mscorefonts-installer (3.4+nmu1ubuntu2) ...

This would be solved if the installer had the url encoded link or if the link was passed inside quotes. As it is, the method above from Eugene Weltzer works just fine as it includes the packages interenally