Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, expect ugly output

Question

I\'m getting this error when starting anything that uses the Pango library. I\'m using Kubuntu 9.10. I\'ve done \'sudo apt-get --reinstall install\' on libgtk* libcairo* l

Answer 1

Make sure that font you are using with pango is installed on the machine.

Check for installed fonts in /usr/share/fonts directory.

To install new fonts try the steps mentioned in this document: