alsa-oss software package provides ALSA wrapper for OSS applications, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install alsa-oss
alsa-oss is installed in your system.
Make ensure the alsa-oss package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep alsa-oss *
You will get with alsa-oss package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Sound |
| Package | alsa-oss |
| Version | 1.0.28-1ubuntu1 |
| Description | ALSA wrapper for OSS applications |
| Sub Section | Sound |