Ubuntu – I cannot install any application anymore

fontssoftware installation

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??

Best Answer

You should reinstall it, otherwise it won't get removed:

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

That should solve your issue.

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I presume you are trying to install that package using sudo dpkg -i package, well, that normally leads to package dependency problems so normally I suggest the use of gdebi. If you have any problematic package remove it. You can check using sudo apt-get check. Now down to business:

sudo apt-get install gdebi-core

With that we have ready gdebi. Now if you use a 64-bit system you may like to install the 64-bit package, likewise with 32-bits.

Now here comes the funny stuff...

sudo gdebi graphviz_2.37.20140208.0545-1\~saucy_amd64.deb 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
Building data structures... Done 
Building data structures... Done 
This package is uninstallable
Dependency is not satisfiable: libgd2-noxpm (>= 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg)|libgd2-xpm (>= 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg)

And here is where you stop. The reason is that the stable package depends on package that were dropped of Debian, ergo Ubuntu 13.10:

libgd2 (2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-6.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Non-maintainer upload.
  * Support multi-arch: (closes: #652496)
    - Mark libgd2-xpm, libgd2-noxpm, libgd2-xpm-dev and libgd2-noxpm-dev
      as same.
    - Adjust d-shlibs and dh-buildinfo build-dependency.
  * Drop .la files.

 -- Bastian Blank   Sun, 13 May 2012 09:16:37 +0000

Those are dependencies of graphviz so they should change them to libgd2-xpm-dev and libgd2-noxpm-dev respectively. If that's the case, you should download the latest build instead 2.38 or later, which includes the correct dependencies.

Ubuntu – ttf-mscorefonts-installer Download Failure

@carnendil, thanks for linking that other question. When I installed the 3.6 version of the package, everything worked fine. The download script looks a lot different compared to the 3.4 package, and it didn't have any issues with invalid content headers or hash sum mismatches.

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