btscanner software package provides ncurses-based scanner for Bluetooth devices, 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 btscanner
btscanner is installed in your system.
Make ensure the btscanner package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep btscanner *
You will get with btscanner package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Network |
| Package | btscanner |
| Version | 2.1-5.1build1 |
| Description | ncurses-based scanner for Bluetooth devices |
| Sub Section | Net |