arachne-pnr software package provides Place and route tool for iCE40 family FGPAs, 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 arachne-pnr
arachne-pnr is installed in your system.
Make ensure the arachne-pnr package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep arachne-pnr *
You will get with arachne-pnr package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Electronics |
| Package | arachne-pnr |
| Version | 0~20150927gitefdb026-1 |
| Description | Place and route tool for iCE40 family FGPAs |
| Sub Section | Electronics |