Lantizia's questions

I'm raising this here as I'm not sure if this is a bug or if I'm just going crazy. But when I'm installing a new Ubuntu Desktop I like to use chunks of copy&paste-able lines to get useful stuff installed really quick... e.g...

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

Which works fine.

But when it comes to libdvd-pkg, I just can't get it to shut up (I don't want to use 'DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive'). Here is what I've tried...

echo libdvd-pkg libdvd-pkg/first-install note | sudo debconf-set-selections
echo libdvd-pkg libdvd-pkg/post-invoke_hook-install boolean true | sudo debconf-set-selections
sudo apt-get -y install libdvd-pkg

You always get this screen...

I've seen this happen on 12+ machines now, so it's not just a one off.

This is on Ubuntu 16.04 by the way.

Any ideas what I might be doing wrong to try and silence this?

I've inspected the DEBIAN/templates file within the .deb package and can't find anything unusual.

I occasionally need to do minor edits to a MS-SQL database running on one of our servers...

I'm using an evaluation of DbVisualizer at the moment to do this (it's Java based and uses something called the jTDS JDBC driver to talk to MS-SQL)... trouble is it's expensive and I'm wondering if there is anything else I can use.

I'm preferably after something which is either a native application (or Java, Python, Perl etc...) but not Windows/Wine/Mono.

Something which has a similar UI to MySQL Workbench or DbVisualizer which I'm currently using.

Any ideas?