Don't know what to do with a EULA from MS?

[capt-zero]

This may sound like a newbie question and it is. This has come up with me before, and I've just ignored it and it would go away after a while. However, like so many things MS, it continues to poke and prod at me every time I update/upgrade. Recently, I had to do a reinstall of 12.04 Precise and when I update/upgrade my system attempts to load truetype fonts for, I assume, LibreOffice. During the process, my konsole stops and gives me a screen that is offcolor from the normal terminal screen and it contains an End User License Agreement for these fonts from MS. It displays an 'OK' down at the bottom, but try as I might, I can't seem to agree/disagree with the terms. Pressing any of the basic combinations of enter (shift-enter, alt-enter, ctrl-enter, or just plain enter) or clicking on it appears to have no effect. If I could ignore it I would, but it interrupts the update process and requires being dealt with (and they call MS user friendly) if I want to continue the update process. It seems we can't get away from MS's claws even in linux. I would like to just refuse the agreement and do without the fonts, but I can't even figure out how to agree to it. Any ideas?

Thanx,
capt-zero

[capt-zero]

Ok, while I was writing this, it occured to me that I had not tried tab-enter. It worked. After a fashion, at least. I had to assure the MS applet three time that I seriously did NOT want anything to do with any of their products; even if it's free. If any developers read this, understand that there are those of us who want nothing to with with MS, so please do not put any MS bits and pieces into your applications.

Thanks and sorry for the rant,
capt-zero

[vw72]

That would be the license agreement to use the various microsoft fonts. If you don't need to read/write Word and Excel files, then you probably don't need them. However, if you do, your documents won't look right without them. They aren't installed by default. But if you installed the kubuntu-restricted-extras, they will be installed

[capt-zero]

vw72,

Yes, this is strictly a home use computer. Presently I don't do any buisiness related networking. I have no take home work. Maybe it might come up later, but I'll cross with that demon if/when it rears it's ugly head.
Concerning my rant and dislike of anything flavored with MS, I listen to progressive news through PRI and others, and have become rather upset with the way MS and others in the computer industry do buisiness. Too many corporations seem willing to do anything they can, hook or crook, to tilt the playing field against any potential threat to their hegemony and let ethics and fair play take the hindmost. At any rate, I have gone into a personal battle of disinvolvement, ostracism and boycott with any of these organisations who feel that rules of conduct only apply to boy scouts and nuns. So companies like MS, Google, (after repositioning on their solemn promises to protect our privacy only a year ago) or any other conglomerate who decides they can do anything they want in the name of a quarterly statement, I endevor to have nothing to do with.

Pardon my rant,
capt-zero
budding anarchist

[SteveRiley]

The package in question is likely ttf-mscorefonts-installer. Only one package truly depends on it:

steve@x1:~$ [B]apt-cache --no-suggests --no-recommends rdepends ttf-mscorefonts-installer[/B]
ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Reverse Depends:
  libphp-jpgraph

Some additional packages recommend it:

steve@x1:~$ [B]apt-cache --no-suggests rdepends ttf-mscorefonts-installer[/B]
ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Reverse Depends:
  xubuntu-restricted-extras
  ubuntu-restricted-extras
  lubuntu-restricted-extras
  kubuntu-restricted-extras
  wine1.4
  libphp-jpgraph
  libreoffice

If you're installing something that recommends the package but you want to exclude it from installing, you can follow this format:

sudo apt-get install [i]thing-you-want[/i] ttf-mscorefonts-installer-

Note the hyphen after the name of the package. This overrides apt-get's dependency resolver, and allows you omit specific recommended packages while allowing the resolver to install the others.

If you find yourself in a situation where you need to render documents that indeed specify these particular fonts, you can instead install the package fonts-liberation. Actually, you probably already have this package installed, as it's recommended by kubuntu-desktop and kubuntu-full.