Can't undo accidental declining of EULA in debconf prompt

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

debconf 1.5.40ubuntu1

1. In Ubuntu Software Center, navigate to Wine and start installing it.
2. When the Debconf prompt appears for installing the Microsoft Core Fonts, decline it.
3. When Wine finishes installing, remove it.
4. When Wine finishes uninstalling, install it again.

What happens: The second time you install Wine, you don't get the chance to choose whether to install the Microsoft fonts. Debconf shows a window saying "If you do not agree to the 'TrueType core fonts for the Web EULA ' license terms you cannot install this software. The installation of this package will be canceled."

What should happen: You are asked whether you want to install the fonts, just as you were the first time.

This problem is not specific to wine: it also occurs with oracle-java7-installer, for example. <http://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/zqerb/i_accidentally_hit_next_without_clicking_i_agree/>

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

You also can't go back during the initial install if you decline

[Björgvin Ragnarsson (nifgraup)]

The root of this problem is how software-center handles declining of the licence. This is not a problem using command line using apt-get. The package wine is unrelated to this problem, the problem is produced by installing and uninstalling the ttf- mscorefonts-installer package.

[Reynaldo Cortorreal (reyncor)]

As bjorgvin said, the solution is to reinstall using the apt-get, i.e.
sudo apt-get install --reinstall msttcorefonts ttf-mscorefonts-installer

[Reynaldo Cortorreal (reyncor)]

ugh, THERE IS A TYPO in my last comand, here is the propper one
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ttf-mscorefonts-installer