ceilometer-agent-compute software package provides ceilometer compute agent, 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 ceilometer-agent-compute
ceilometer-agent-compute is installed in your system.
Make ensure the ceilometer-agent-compute package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep ceilometer-agent-compute *
You will get with ceilometer-agent-compute package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Python |
| Package | ceilometer-agent-compute |
| Version | 1:6.0.0-0ubuntu1 |
| Description | ceilometer compute agent |
| Sub Section | Python |