How can I accept the Microsoft EULA agreement for ttf-mscorefonts-installer?

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For some reason my terminal will not allow me to accept, or for some reason I am pressing the wrong hotkey. I've tried every letter on the keyboard and Enter among others. I'm sure there is a very simple and obvious solution to this.

asked Dec 4, 2010 at 22:40 4,583 5 5 gold badges 21 21 silver badges 19 19 bronze badges

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It's ⇆ TAB , then return ↵ .

In general, to navigate ncurses -style menus:

Use the Tab key to move from one element (e.g., button, text box) to the next. Use Shift + Tab to move in reverse.
Use Spacebar to "click" the selected button.
Use Enter to click the default button (or currently selected button, if there is no default).
You can move up and down in a textbox with the arrow keys, and with Page Up and Page Down . If that doesn't work, press Tab until the text box you want to navigate in is selected.

If you've accidentally said you don't agree to the EULA, and you want a chance to review it again and agree, you can reinstall ttf-mscorefonts-installer , purging its global configuration files:

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

119k 57 57 gold badges 323 323 silver badges 504 504 bronze badges answered Dec 4, 2010 at 22:50 Stefano Palazzo Stefano Palazzo 87.4k 46 46 gold badges 211 211 silver badges 227 227 bronze badges Personally, I think curses is wrong, you should be able to just press return. :P Commented Feb 10, 2011 at 15:29 Wow, I would have never figured that out. Does this only happen with Microsoft installers? Commented Aug 24, 2013 at 2:56

@BSeven: I guess Microsoft did not do the packaging on this one and the maintainer of the package implemented that dialog. But most of the time you don't have to accept EULAs when installing packages, so .

Commented Jun 24, 2014 at 5:09

I thought I'm the only person facing this, andI'm the only stupid to have not figured this out.. but it seems 121 users have upvoted the question and 161 liked as of date, I'm not the only one. you saved many of us. thnx

Commented Apr 24, 2015 at 9:30

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Commented Nov 1, 2018 at 16:02

Normal install, deploying or in scripts

Use debconf to preset the selection. This will not prompt to accept the license:

echo ttf-mscorefonts-installer msttcorefonts/accepted-mscorefonts-eula select true | sudo debconf-set-selections sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

With Kickstart

Add this to your Kickstart.cfg file:

preseed --owner ttf-mscorefonts-installer msttcorefonts/accepted-mscorefonts-eula boolean true

33.3k 52 52 gold badges 167 167 silver badges 292 292 bronze badges answered Feb 10, 2011 at 10:37 1,643 1 1 gold badge 10 10 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges When using --quiet , will it automatically accept the licence? Commented Nov 4, 2013 at 17:53

I needed two debconf entries: echo ttf-mscorefonts-installer msttcorefonts/accepted-mscorefonts-eula select true | sudo debconf-set-selections and echo ttf-mscorefonts-installer msttcorefonts/present-mscorefonts-eula note | sudo debconf-set-selections

Commented Oct 31, 2014 at 9:06

@king_julien: no, --quiet will not accept the license, so that should not be an option without echo ttf-mscorefonts-installer msttcorefonts/accepted-mscorefonts-eula select true | sudo debconf-set-selections !

Commented Oct 27, 2015 at 10:42

I removed the command without sudo and non-working --quiet option. Feel free to revert the edit if this is too much change, but I think the answer is much clearer like this now

Commented Oct 27, 2015 at 10:48

how did you come up with the syntax for that? that's the interesting part. I want to apply this to Java jdk , steamcmd , ect

Commented Mar 2, 2019 at 11:13

You can also accept the license with a single command like this:

echo ttf-mscorefonts-installer msttcorefonts/accepted-mscorefonts-eula select true | debconf-set-selections

This will avoid creating the conf file.

If your using puppet, here is a recipe for installing the package:

class unifocus-context::msfonts < exec < "accept-msttcorefonts-license": command =>"/bin/sh -c \"echo ttf-mscorefonts-installer msttcorefonts/accepted- mscorefonts-eula select true | debconf-set-selections\"" > package < "msttcorefonts": ensure =>installed, require => Exec['accept-msttcorefonts-license'] > >

answered Jul 8, 2011 at 21:51 Casey Watson Casey Watson 339 2 2 silver badges 5 5 bronze badges

Some people may find this question when searching for help installing ubuntu-restricted-extras (or when their questions accepting a EULA for ubuntu-restricted-extras are closed as a duplicate of this question).

ubuntu-restricted-extras is a metapackage that exists solely to install other packages.

One of those packages is ttf-mscorefonts-installer . That's the one you must agree to a EULA to finish installing. It fetches Microsoft fonts and installs them on your system.

To agree to the EULA, use the Tab key to switch from "button" to "button" in the non-graphical "window", and either the Spacebar ("clicks" the selected "button") or the Enter key ("clicks" the "default" button). You can move up and down in the EULA with the arrow keys and with Page Up and Page Down .
If you've accidentally said you don't agree to the EULA, and you want a chance to review it again and agree, you can reinstall ttf-mscorefonts-installer , purging its global configuration files:

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

sudo apt-get remove ttf-mscorefonts-installer sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-addons gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse libavcodec-extra-53 unrar