awesome software package provides highly configurable X window manager, 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 awesome
awesome is installed in your system.
Make ensure the awesome package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep awesome *
You will get with awesome package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | X Window System software |
| Package | awesome |
| Version | 3.5.6-1build1 |
| Description | highly configurable X window manager |
| Sub Section | X51 |