eula not shown when installed via restricted-extras

[Fabio Marconi]

Hello
I've installed Lubuntu-restricted-xtras, but it hang on msttcorfo...., opening the little terminal I can see the eula, but isn't clickable.
Stopped it, lauched update-manager, it tried to instal msttcorefonts but hang again without the possibility to see and accept the eula.
Thanks
Fabio

**Workaround**
kill the app used to install lubuntu-restricted-extras, fix with dpkg --configure -a, run update-manager and uncheck msttcorefont-installer

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.4ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-12.21-generic 3.2.2
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Feb 4 11:08:11 2012
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120203)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: msttcorefonts
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-04 (0 days ago)

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/926581

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I was unable to recreate this by just installing ttf-mscorefonts-installer from software center on Ubuntu on 12.04. I was presented with a EULA.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

However, just to install ubuntu-restricted-extras I never did see the EULA.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Actually, what application did you use to install lubuntu-restricted-extras?

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

I've used synaptic
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[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

I installed ubuntu-restricted-extras here through software-center and synaptic, and in both cases the EULA prompt was correctly displayed for me as a pop-up window. This is on a stock precise VM with no customization. Brian, any idea what I'm missing in trying to reproduce this?

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello Steve
Acvtually, in VM, I try to install the lubuntu-restricted-extras with package manager (synaptic) and the eula is in the little terminal normally hidden, butg this time I can accept or deny the eula.
In few hours I will test it in real hardware .
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[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Same behavior on real hardware, this time I was able to use the arrows to choose
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[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Do you not have the debconf gnome frontend installed/configured in your environment? It's the default in Ubuntu; perhaps it isn't in lubuntu?

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

the debconf-gnome frontend depends on having the libgtk2-perl package installed.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Yeah, debconf-gnome isn't installed by default and isn't listed as package in synaptic, only debconf (installed by default).
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[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

As I said, the debconf gnome frontend depends on having the libgtk2-perl package installed. It sounds like this isn't installed by default in lubuntu; if it should be, that needs to be fixed in lubuntu-meta. Reassigning.

[Jonathan Marsden (jmarsden)]

Shouldn't the EULA be displayed, and allow users to accept it, in *any* debconf front end, not just the GNOME one? Why require one specific front end in order to install a particular package? This seems really odd, the whole idea of multiple front ends is that they allow debconf user interaction in a variety of different UI and desktop environments, isn't it?

Secondly, if the debconf gnome front end requires libgtk2-perl, then (per the usual way Debian/Ubuntu packaging works) it should use a Depends: line to specify that, not rely on other packages causing libgtk2-perl to be already present. So I think this aspect of the issue would be a packaging bug in the debconf gnome front end, rather than in lubuntu-meta.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

That is the case AFAICT from the screenshot. There is a EULA displayed in the dialog frontend of debconf in the screenshot in #9.

FWIW, synpatic already recommends:
Recommends: libgtk2-perl (>= 1:1.130)

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello
The first time i've reported this issue it was blocking for the installation, now it is possible for me to proceed, but for a normal or new user ?
Can he easily understand to click on the little triangle to show the EULA to accept ?
IMHO no.

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[mpok3 (mpok3)]

Hi,

Just installed Lubuntu 12.04 and then installed lubuntu-restricted extras. Upon seeing the eula for ttf-mscorefonts-installer I pressed Tab and then OK and Yes.

This has solved it for me. It would be nice if I could see the OK/Yes options but never mind :-)

[Chris (fabricator4)]

In a terminal window it's not obvious that you have to press tab to move the terminal cursor to the first <OK> on the screen. If you don't press <tab> you can press as many keys as you like but you won't be able to proceed to the next step in accepting the EULA.

Chris

[Benjamin Bach (benjaoming)]

Please see

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/1389582

The missing dependency is a more general error that causes lots of debconf stuff to be missing in default Ubuntu installations. Using Pre-Depends doesn't solve this, reporters say.

I would suggest closing this as a duplicate.

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

Marked as duplicate as per @benjaoming's comment #20