On Wednesday, March 07, 2012 04:09:57 PM, Luther Woodrum wrote: > Ubuntu 10.04. I used the apt-get install, and it installed a > bunch of things. Then it came up with a screen that said > "configuring ttf-mscorefonts-installer", and it hasd the EULA, > with <Ok> at the bottom of the screen. > > I read the EULA all right, but clicking on <Ok> did nothing. > There are no other options. The screen is stuck. > > Has anyone run into this?
Yes, although not with this particular package (thusfar). Also this package might be "recommended" rather than a hard dependency, so you might not *have* to install it. By default Debian-based systems want to install things that are "recommended" even though they're not necessarily required. As such one thing I'd normally do in this case would be to check this particular package in the package manager for the "reverse dependencies" to see if the other software you're trying to install actually *depends* on this pacakge. What these types of "installer" packages do is to run a script to actually download the fonts from an external server and then install them from there. When debian-based systems go to install any package, the scripts to complete the install are expanded into /var/lib/dpkg/info/ and are executed from there. Within that directory, you can examine the ttf-mscorefonts-installer.postinst which in this case is a shell script. It's possible there's a bug in the script; if you find a bug, you can modify the script (via sudo, since you're running Ubuntu) and save it, and then have the package manager complete the installation. It's been a long time since I've had to do this kind of thing, but back in the 2004-ish timeframe this is something I commonly had to do on Debian Unstable. > Should I be using ubuntu 11.1 instead? I think this is an individual package problem, so I'd say no. [Or at least if I were going to upgrade, this wouldn't be the reason I'd do it.] One thing you could do would be to download this individual package from both versions of the OS (manually) and compare them with the 'debdiff' command to see what the differences are between the different versions of the package. [debdiff is part of the 'devscripts' package, at least on Debian.] http://packages.ubuntu.com/ Specific links: http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/ttf-mscorefonts-installer http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/ttf-mscorefonts-installer (The versions and file sizes are different, so they have differences.) -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Apr 4 - An Intro to Chef May 2 - May 2012 Meeting Jun 6 - June 2012 Meeting
