Missing dependencies ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.8.1ubuntu1 package

Start by reproducing the reported apt-get installation on Linux Mint 22.3 with the listed ttf-mscorefonts-installer package, then inspect its /DEBIAN/control dependencies and the failing Noble package URLs. Done means the dependency issue is either resolved so installation succeeds or clearly shown to belong outside mintcommon, with the relevant package or repository scope identified.

Problem

When trying to install ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.8.1ubuntu1.deb on Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon for AMD64 (Ubuntu 24.04 noble based), using the sudo apt-get install -y ttf-mscorefonts-installer command, the following errors are presented:

E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/ubuntu-release-upgrader/python3-distupgrade_24.04.27_all.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 2a06:bc80:0:1000::16 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/ubuntu-release-upgrader/ubuntu-release-upgrader-core_24.04.27_all.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 2a06:bc80:0:1000::16 80]

The package cannot be installed.

Candidate

mint@mint:~$ apt-cache policy ttf-mscorefonts-installer
ttf-mscorefonts-installer:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.8.1ubuntu1
  Version table:
     3.8.1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/multiverse amd64 Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/multiverse i386 Packages

/DEBIAN/control

• get ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.8.1ubuntu1.deb

Package: ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Source: msttcorefonts
Version: 3.8.1ubuntu1
Architecture: all
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
Installed-Size: 83
Pre-Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0
Depends: wget, ca-certificates, cabextract, xfonts-utils, update-notifier-common (>= 0.119ubuntu2)
Recommends: fonts-liberation
Provides: msttcorefonts
Section: contrib/fonts
Priority: optional
Multi-Arch: foreign
Description: Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts
 This package allows for easy installation of the Microsoft True Type
 Core Fonts for the Web including:
 .
   Andale Mono
   Arial Black
   Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   Comic Sans MS (Bold)
   Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   Impact
   Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
   Webdings
 .
 You will need an Internet connection to download these fonts if you
 don't already have them.
 .
 NOTE: the package fonts-liberation contains free variants of the Times,
 Arial and Courier fonts. It's better to use those instead unless you
 specifically need one of the other fonts from this package.

Full install log

sudo apt-get install -y ttf-mscorefonts-installer

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following additional packages will be installed:
  cabextract libmspack0t64 python3-distro-info python3-distupgrade
  python3-update-manager ubuntu-pro-client ubuntu-pro-client-l10n
  ubuntu-release-upgrader-core update-manager-core update-notifier-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  cabextract libmspack0t64 python3-distro-info python3-distupgrade
  python3-update-manager ttf-mscorefonts-installer ubuntu-pro-client
  ubuntu-pro-client-l10n ubuntu-release-upgrader-core update-manager-core
  update-notifier-common
0 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 152 kB/790 kB of archives.
After this operation, 4582 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Ign:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main amd64 python3-distupgrade all 1:24.04.27
Ign:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main amd64 ubuntu-release-upgrader-core all 1:24.04.27
Err:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main amd64 python3-distupgrade all 1:24.04.27
  404  Not Found [IP: 2a06:bc80:0:1000::16 80]
Err:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main amd64 ubuntu-release-upgrader-core all 1:24.04.27
  404  Not Found [IP: 2a06:bc80:0:1000::16 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/ubuntu-release-upgrader/python3-distupgrade_24.04.27_all.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 2a06:bc80:0:1000::16 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/ubuntu-release-upgrader/ubuntu-release-upgrader-core_24.04.27_all.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 2a06:bc80:0:1000::16 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

System

System:
  Host: mint Kernel: 6.14.0-37-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 13.3.0 clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper
    initrd=/casper/initrd.lz uuid=6e72f523-dc09-4880-8910-93ffa64401c5
    username=mint hostname=mint quiet splash --
  Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.6.4 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.6.1 tools:
    avail: cinnamon-screensaver vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0
    Distro: Linux Mint 22.3 Zena base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble

🛈 Reporting a bug on launchpad.net is far too complicated (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs) :-(

Kind regards, Odie