ben-desktop:/home/ben# aptitude reinstall lmodern
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
  lmodern
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/17.0MB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Selecting previously deselected package lmodern.
(Reading database ... 147262 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace lmodern 1.010x-3 (using .../lmodern_1.010x-3_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement lmodern ...
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 does not exist or is not a directory
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 does not exist or is not a directory
Setting up lmodern (1.010x-3) ...
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 does not exist or is not a directory
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 does not exist or is not a directory

ben-desktop:/home/ben# ls /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
ls: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1: No such file or directory
ben-desktop:/home/ben# mkdir /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
ben-desktop:/home/ben# aptitude reinstall lmodern
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
  lmodern
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/17.0MB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 147262 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace lmodern 1.010x-3 (using .../lmodern_1.010x-3_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement lmodern ...
Setting up lmodern (1.010x-3) ...
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 does not exist or is not a directory
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 does not exist or is not a directory

ben-desktop:/home/ben# ls /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
ls: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1: No such file or directory
ben-desktop:/home/ben#