fontconfig software package provides generic font configuration library - support binaries, you can install in your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install fontconfig
fontconfig is installed in your system.
Make ensure the fontconfig package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep fontconfig *
You will get with fontconfig package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 12 04 lts precise pangolin |
| Section | Utilities |
| Package | fontconfig |
| Version | 2.8.0-3ubuntu9.2 [amd64, i386] |
| Description | generic font configuration library - support binaries |
| Sub Section | Utils |