MS True Type Fonts

[rickm1945]

I tried installing MS True Type fonts from software manager and via Terminal. I have not been successful at either. Help Please!

[howefield]

Which version of Ubuntu ?

sudo apt-get update

then

sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

[Vladlenin5000]

Obs.: There's an EULA (End User License Agreement) from Microsoft you must agree with otherwise the installation will be aborted. When such dialog window appears in the terminal you need to use the TAB and arrow keys to navigate the options and ENTER to ultimately select the desired option.

[mikewhatever]

Obs.: There's an EULA (End User License Agreement) from Microsoft you must agree with otherwise the installation will be aborted. When such dialog window appears in the terminal you need to use the TAB and arrow keys to navigate the options and ENTER to ultimately select the desired option.

While accepting the EULA is the usual trouble with msfonts, we don't actually know what happened.
rickm, can you tell us.

[monkeybrain20122]

It comes with restricted-extras, I used to just bypassed it by refusing to accept the EULA, but pipelight appears to need it so I accept it so I guess the fonts are just available somewhere in the system. I never change the default fonts in Ubuntu.

[Vladlenin5000]

You might need to reinstall (if not, it doesn't hurt to do it anyway and we can troubleshoot from there):

sudo apt-get purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer

followed by

sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

[rickm1945]

@howefield Ubuntu 14.04

[rickm1945]

richard@richard-Studio-XPS-8100:~$ sudo apt-get purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer
[sudo] password for richard: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 134 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
dpkg: error processing package ttf-mscorefonts-installer (--purge):
 package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
 reinstall it before attempting a removal
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ttf-mscorefonts-installer
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
richard@richard-Studio-XPS-8100:~$

this was returned on purge.

[rickm1945]

This was returned on trying to reinstall like it said to do.

richard@richard-Studio-XPS-8100:~$ sudo apt-get purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer
[sudo] password for richard: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 134 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
dpkg: error processing package ttf-mscorefonts-installer (--purge):
 package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
 reinstall it before attempting a removal
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ttf-mscorefonts-installer
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
richard@richard-Studio-XPS-8100:~$

[fatriff]

This thread appears to hold the solution..

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2179342