astro-tasks software package provides Debian Astronomy tasks for tasksel, 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 astro-tasks
astro-tasks is installed in your system.
Make ensure the astro-tasks package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep astro-tasks *
You will get with astro-tasks package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Science |
| Package | astro-tasks |
| Version | 0.1 |
| Description | Debian Astronomy tasks for tasksel |
| Sub Section | Science |