First thing, I'm far from a Linux wiz…
Based on some questions and answers around playing mp4 files, I ran
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras.
Things seemed to be going fine until I got a pop up with the Microsoft EULA and what appeared to be an OK button at the bottom. Unfortunately, the button did nothing. After waiting quite a while and trying whatever I could to accept the license, I killed the process… probably not the smartest thing do have done?
So now can anybody give me some help in either uninstalling what is there or doing a complete install?
TIA,
John
Best Answer
This is within a terminal window. Were you trying to click the button with the mouse?
It's slightly counter-intuitive, but often the only way to move to those kind of buttons in the terminal is to use the Tab key. I discovered this many years ago when I first started using Linux, and had trouble finding an answer to what must have been obvious to everyone else.
Anyways, open a terminal again.
sudo apt-get -f install
will likely resume the installation you were just trying to do, if not,sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
again. I'm not 100% sure that simply being unable to select the button was your actual problem.So yeah, Tab to the button, Enter to select. Very few command-line applications are mouse-enabled for obvious reasons.