diff --git a/packages/fontconfig/build.sh b/packages/fontconfig/build.sh
index 76a2282d6..4e6c8f2e7 100644
--- a/packages/fontconfig/build.sh
+++ b/packages/fontconfig/build.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fontconfig/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Library for configuring and customizing font access"
-# When updating, try building in the docker image to see if gperf
-# will be necessary.
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.12.0
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.12.4
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=668293fcc4b3c59765cdee5cee05941091c0879edcc24dfec5455ef83912e45c
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/release/fontconfig-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.bz2
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=b433e4efff1f68fdd8aac221ed1df3ff1e580ffedbada020a703fe64017d8224
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="freetype, libxml2"
-TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--enable-libxml2 --enable-iconv=no --disable-docs --with-default-fonts=/system/fonts --with-add-fonts=$TERMUX_PREFIX/share/fonts"
+# TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_IN_SRC=yes
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="
+--enable-libxml2
+--enable-iconv=no
+--disable-docs
+--with-default-fonts=/system/fonts
+--with-add-fonts=$TERMUX_PREFIX/share/fonts
+"
diff --git a/scripts/setup-ubuntu.sh b/scripts/setup-ubuntu.sh
index 0137296a2..ddd1fadea 100755
--- a/scripts/setup-ubuntu.sh
+++ b/scripts/setup-ubuntu.sh
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ PACKAGES+=" ed" # Used by bc
 PACKAGES+=" flex"
 PACKAGES+=" gettext" # Provides 'msgfmt' which the apt build uses.
 PACKAGES+=" git" # Used by the neovim build.
+PACKAGES+=" gperf" # Used by the fontconfig build.
 PACKAGES+=" help2man"
 PACKAGES+=" intltool" # Used by qalc build.
 PACKAGES+=" libglib2.0-dev" # Provides 'glib-genmarshal' which the glib build uses.