aptly software package provides Swiss army knife for Debian repository management, 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 aptly
aptly is installed in your system.
Make ensure the aptly package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep aptly *
You will get with aptly package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Utilities |
| Package | aptly |
| Version | 0.9.6-1 |
| Description | Swiss army knife for Debian repository management |
| Sub Section | Utils |