buildd software package provides Daemon for automatically building Debian binary packages from Debian sources, 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 buildd
buildd is installed in your system.
Make ensure the buildd package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep buildd *
You will get with buildd package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Development |
| Package | buildd |
| Version | 0.67.0-2ubuntu7 |
| Description | Daemon for automatically building Debian binary packages from Debian sources |
| Sub Section | Devel |