Help installing Wine 1.6

[Ham13]

I used the following commands to install Wine 1.6 and Winetricks:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.6

All went well until I got a form in the terminal window showing the EULA for configureingttf - mscore fonts installer. There was a line saying "configureing package". There was an <OK> but you could not click on it. Enter did not work as well. Install seemed to stop at that point. No way out but to close terminal and reboot.

To load Winetricks - first had to enter sudo dpkg --configure -a. Then I could sudo apt-get install Winetricks. Then I got the same EULA message with the same effect, during the Winetricks install.

/user/home/XXX/.Wine does not exist. Terminal reprts Wine and Wintricks not installed. It wants ti install v 1.4.
If I try to remove Wine and Wintricks (sudo apt-get remove wine winetricks) I get the same EULA screen and it stops there. OK. What have I done wrong. How do I get passed the MS EULA screen? If I need to install V1.4 how do I get rid of 1.6?

[dimesio]

Ask on the Ubuntu forum. MS core fonts are not part of Wine, and you should not see any EULA when installing Wine.

[Ham13]

Thanks for your response. The MS Core Fonts may not be a part of Wine but, the EULA did appear during the installation. Perhaps the MS fonts are needed to run Wine and if not installed were installed at the time I installed Wine. I did finally get past that form and get Wine and Winetricks installed. All that was needed was to tab to the OK and press enter. Of course without some prompt or help one would not know this. Now on to loading the two apps I need Ham Radio Deluxe and Echolink. Both are Windows ham radio programs.

[dimesio]

The MS fonts are not needed to run Wine, though some specific apps need them. It sounds like the Ubuntu Wine package had them as a dependency. Packages are built by the distros, not here, so any problems with them should be reported to the package maintainer.

[Ham13]

Thanks. Problem solved.