bbdb software package provides The Insidious Big Brother Database (email rolodex) for Emacs, 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 bbdb
bbdb is installed in your system.
Make ensure the bbdb package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep bbdb *
You will get with bbdb package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | |
| Package | bbdb |
| Version | 2.36-4 |
| Description | The Insidious Big Brother Database (email rolodex) for Emacs |
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