fonts-farsiweb software package provides free TrueType fonts for Persian language, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install fonts-farsiweb
fonts-farsiweb is installed in your system.
Make ensure the fonts-farsiweb package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep fonts-farsiweb *
You will get with fonts-farsiweb package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Fonts |
| Package | fonts-farsiweb |
| Version | 0.4.dfsg-12 |
| Description | free TrueType fonts for Persian language |
| Sub Section | Fonts |