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I ran the upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04. Ran flawlessly until very end, and I got a pop-up which said the mscorefonts installer had not completed. I ignored it, because I don't use any Microsoft products, and frankly prefer the Ubuntu fonts.

The pop-up keeps showing up every time I apply an upgrade or fix. So I decided I would try to correct the problem.

First I dropped to terminal and ran: sudo apt purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer That ran without issue. Then ran sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer Now this is where the fun began. During the install I could not accept the EULA, and had to quit the terminal with only a partial and corrupted install.

Now I can't purge because the file is corrupted, and wants me to reinstall first, but when I try to reinstall I still hang up unable to accept the EULA. Any advice from the Ubuntu Wizards?

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    ^ The answer on that question has this step sudo dpkg-reconfigure tts-mscorefonts-installer and that should make you able to accept the EULA. follow the steps and let us know if that works – Anwar Aug 05 '16 at 14:03
  • '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)' This is what is returned. I would really like to just – Desert Sailor Aug 05 '16 at 15:43
  • I seem to be stuck... I can't get the corrupted fonts-installer removed, and I can't reinstall or configure it until it is un-corrupted. – Desert Sailor Aug 05 '16 at 15:51
  • use sudo dpkg -r --ttf-mscorefonts-installer to remove it – Anwar Aug 05 '16 at 15:57
  • That returned this, did I use an incorrect switch? *dpkg: error: unknown option --ttf-mscorefonts-installer

    Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*]; Use 'apt' or 'aptitude' for user-friendly package management; Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values; Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options; Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;

    Options marked [*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through 'less' or 'more' !*

     – Desert Sailor Aug 05 '16 at 16:01
  • Let us continue this discussion in chat. – Desert Sailor Aug 05 '16 at 16:04
  • This answer helps in accepting EULA http://askubuntu.com/questions/16225/how-can-i-accept-the-microsoft-eula-agreement-for-ttf-mscorefonts-installer?rq=1 – Anwar Aug 05 '16 at 16:42

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