fonts-roboto software package provides metapackage to pull in Roboto fonts, 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-roboto
fonts-roboto is installed in your system.
Make ensure the fonts-roboto package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep fonts-roboto *
You will get with fonts-roboto package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Fonts |
| Package | fonts-roboto |
| Version | 2:0~20160106-1 |
| Description | metapackage to pull in Roboto fonts |
| Sub Section | Fonts |