cabal-install software package provides command-line interface for Cabal and Hackage, 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 cabal-install
cabal-install is installed in your system.
Make ensure the cabal-install package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep cabal-install *
You will get with cabal-install package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Haskell |
| Package | cabal-install |
| Version | 1.22.6.0-2 |
| Description | command-line interface for Cabal and Hackage |
| Sub Section | Haskell |