Unable to install on Ubuntu 20.04

[maclockard]

When trying to install, I get the following error:

checking for freetype-config... no

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Error: freetype-config not found.
Please install FreeType with freetype-config script.
If you have not installed FreeType, you can
download the source code from http://freetype.org/

In Debian/Ubuntu-like systems, you can use
  "sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev"
to install FreeType

For rpm-based systems, try
  "sudo yum install freetype-devel"
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I followed the suggested steps and ran sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev, however, I still get the error. I have verified libfreetype6-dev is installed by running dpkg --get-selections | grep libfreetype6.

From some of my own investigation, it seems as though libfreetype6-dev no longer packages freetype-config since it has been deprecated and instead pkg-config should be used: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892451

The next release of libfreetype6-dev will not ship freetype-config', as the script has now been deprecated in favour of pkg-config'.

This is an upstream change:

"Use of the `freetype-config' script to get compilation and

linking options is deprecated since it doesn't support

cross-compiling, among other deficiencies. Instead, you should

use the `pkg-config' interface."