Warning Vampire Zombie Synaptic Package Mgr.

[zero-sum]

Mint ver. 12 KDE. It all started when I innocently tried to down load the latest msttcorefonts via synaptic. It never completed. I ended up looking at an EULA screen that I could not kill. Even xkill (skull and crossbones) won't kill this sucker. It just keeps coming back for more. Tried to do a

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sudo apt-get purge synaptic

First, a message comes back that I need to run -

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dpkg --configure -a

and when I do, back comes the EULA screen

http://wsrl.org/x-img/synap-2.png

I did eventually erase the fonts I didn't want and installed the fonts I did want. Now if I can only get the synaptic thing permanently killed, erased, reinstalled or whatever.

Any ideas most welcome. In the mean time, if you are running KDE ver. 12, I would strongly advise avoiding trying to download the MS fonts via Synaptic.

[sagirfahmid3]

(NVM wrong comment)

[colyn]

All you have to do is hit Tab and you can then accept or reject. It will then go away..

[zero-sum]

Finally discovered the "tab key" trick. I might also add the coding for reinstalling programs which is a little unusual

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sudo aptitude reinstall packagename

or

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sudo apt-get install --reinstall packagename

I used the latter quite a bit putting things back together. At this point I'm going to try very hard to keep things professional and not issue comments about how I really feel about Micrsoft and their wonderful EULA's

Thanks to all --