Wednesday, January 8, 2020

software installation - I cannot install any application anymore

After installing wine and failed to agree on the agreement on the font.
this message is shown, and I cannot install or remove the ttf-mscorefonts-installer anymore.



The package 'ttf-mscorefonts-installer' is in an inconsistent state and needs to be re-installed, but no archive can be found for it. 



I use this command first to re install the 'ttf-mscorefonts-instaler'



sudo apt-get --reinstall install ttf-mscorefonts-installer


This error message shows.



Reading package lists... Done 

Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: The package ttf-mscorefonts-installer needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.


and using this command "sudo apt-cache policy ttf-mscorefonts-installer" this error message shows.




Installed: 3.4ubuntu3
Candidate: 3.4ubuntu3

Version table:
*** 3.4ubuntu3 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3.3ubuntu4 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/multiverse amd64 Packages


and with this command "sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer" this message shows.





/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: ttf-mscorefonts-installer is broken or not fully installed


how to solve this problem??

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