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??
sudo apt-get --reinstall install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
and tell us the output? note that is totally different that Mitch answer.sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer
it may ask for the licence agreement again.apt-cache policy ttf-mscorefonts-installer
.