calligra error finding callig15 redux

Question

This question has been asked before, in particular inthis thread which for some completely inexplicable reason was closed because it was unlikely to be of help to future readers. An answer would certainly be helpful to me, and I imagine many other readers. Since the last question on this topic that I could find on the web was dated 2013, I'm hoping that some way of resolving the problem has been identified by somebody. To reiterate virtually verbatim that thread, here's the minimal example

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{calligra}
\begin{document}
\calligra
This is a test of a calligraphy font.
\end{document}

Here's the message i get I run it:

kpathsea: Running mktextfm callig15
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input callig15
This is METAFONT, Version 2.718281 (TeX Live 2013/Debian)


kpathsea: Running mktexmf callig15
! I can't find file `callig15'.
<*> ...ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input callig15

Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> ...ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input callig15

Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: callig15.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input callig15' failed to make callig15.tfm.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
You have some remaining errors
Font T1/calligra/m/n/12=callig15 at 17.28003pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) fil

Any help resolving this issue would be most appreciated.