Comment 6 for bug 1415454

Update

I downloaded the 11 zip files from Sourceforge and tried to re-run
dpgk-reconfigure. Despite several attempts with different paths It
claimed that it could not find the files. I opened Wine and was able to
install all 11 fonts but not surprisingly the info did not cross over to
Ubuntu so when I started the machine the next day I got a message
telling me that ttf-mscorefonts-installer had had trouble installing.

Everything appears to be working fine so I'm not sure how much of a
problem this really is but I'm open to suggestions about what to do next.

Cheers
Kim

I just tried it on one of the wine machines and the dpkg instruction
runs flashing up a series of old DOS like dialogues asking where the
font files are - I took the easy route and left it blank and hit OK,
then it asked about using a mirror site to download them and I again
left it blank and hit OK, the installer stopped and an error was
reported to the terminal saying that I had not accepted the EULA - I
didn't see where it was offered!! I'll manually download the webdin32
executable and try again - is there a 64 bit version?

So it is possible that the wine machine is the one that the original bug
was reported from - sorry for the vagueness but I have 4 Ubuntu machines
and the 2 without wine, on my office network, are having trouble with
the Software updater so have to be manually updated. The two with wine,
at home, are running different versions of Ubuntu - 12.04 and 14.04.
Both machines are currently updating and working fine through software
updater/update manager

Cheers
Kim

On 21/02/2015 8:34 AM, Geokimbo wrote:
> Sorry for the delay in responding, I've been away.
>
> dpkg-reconfigure failed because it could not find
> ttf-mscorefonts-installer so I downloaded the exe but I don't have wine
> on that machine so it is not recognised as an extractable archive by the
> archive manager. I transferred the exe to a windows machine and
> confirmed that it was not corrupted. apt-get does not recognise
> ttf-mscorefonts-installer as a valid package so I'll need some pointers
> on how to get it.
>
> I'm not sure why msfonts would be needed on a machine not running wine.
> I do have wine on two other Ubuntu machines on a different network but
> not the one producing this error.
>
> The update manager has been continually failing so I've done an -update
> followed by -upgrade via the terminal
>
> Cheers
> Kim
>
> On 18/02/2015 7:29 AM, Brian Murray wrote:
>> This is most likely a result of the following error:
>>
>> ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/webdin32.exe
>> user did not accept the license
>> The fonts are NOT installed.
>> Please run 'dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer' to perform the installation again
>> ...
>> Setting up samba-common (2:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.4) ...
>> Use of uninitialized value $_[1] in join or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Stack.pm line 111, <GEN0> line 14.
>> Use of uninitialized value $val in substitution (s///) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Format/822.pm line 83, <GEN7> line 15.
>> Use of uninitialized value $val in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Format/822.pm line 84, <GEN7> line 15.
>>