cantor-backend-octave software package provides Octave backend for Cantor, 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 cantor-backend-octave
cantor-backend-octave is installed in your system.
Make ensure the cantor-backend-octave package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep cantor-backend-octave *
You will get with cantor-backend-octave package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Mathematics |
| Package | cantor-backend-octave |
| Version | 4:15.12.1-0ubuntu3 |
| Description | Octave backend for Cantor |
| Sub Section | Math |