apt-get failing upgrade on brand new install

[Mario Vukelic]

On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 13:50 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Setting up ttf-opensymbol (2.2.0-1ubuntu4) ...
> Updating fontconfig cache...
> /usr/share/fonts: failed to write cache
> /usr/share/fonts/X11: failed to write cache
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi: failed to write cache
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi: failed to write cache

Here is a bug report which also provides a fix further down:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/104553