Public bug reported:
In Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS, new install (well, as of a few months ago),
italic/oblique variants just weren't installed by default. In some
programs this resulted in text not showing, in others it resulted in
those square boxes that indicate no font installed showing. The issue is
in fonts-dejavu-extra which apparently doesn't exist in Ubuntu, so I've
selected I don't know, even though I have a damn good idea.
The only way to fix this that I quickly found is to install the
"transitional dummy package" that "can be safely removed" ttf-dejavu-
extra. With this package installed, all the variants of DejaVu are
installed. With it removed, the problem occurs.
This package installs the extra font DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf: "DejaVu
Sans" "Oblique".
I present the output of some commands to demonstrate the issue:
me@mine:~$ apt-cache policy fonts-dejavu-extra
fonts-dejavu-extra:
Installed: 2.35-1
Candidate: 2.35-1
Version table:
*** 2.35-1 500
500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
me@mine:~$ fc-match -s sans-serif | grep -i dejavu
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Bold"
DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf.dpkg-new: "DejaVu Sans" "Bold Oblique"
DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book"
DejaVuSerif.ttf: "DejaVu Serif" "Book"
me@mine:~$ sudo apt-get install ttf-dejavu-extra
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
linux-headers-4.4.0-92 linux-headers-4.4.0-92-generic
linux-image-4.4.0-92-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-92-generic
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ttf-dejavu-extra
0 to upgrade, 1 to newly install, 0 to remove and 3 not to upgrade.
Need to get 0 B/3,176 B of archives.
After this operation, 69.6 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package ttf-dejavu-extra.
(Reading database ... 316833 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../ttf-dejavu-extra_2.35-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking ttf-dejavu-extra (2.35-1) ...
Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.11.94-0ubuntu1.1) ...
Setting up ttf-dejavu-extra (2.35-1) ...
me@mine:~$ fc-match -s sans-serif | grep -i dejavu
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Bold"
DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Oblique"
DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf.dpkg-new: "DejaVu Sans" "Bold Oblique"
DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book"
DejaVuSerif.ttf: "DejaVu Serif" "Book"
me@mine:~$
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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DejaVu Oblique variants not installed by default
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