ceph-common software package provides common utilities to mount and interact with a ceph storage cluster, 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 ceph-common
ceph-common is installed in your system.
Make ensure the ceph-common package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep ceph-common *
You will get with ceph-common package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Administration Utilities |
| Package | ceph-common |
| Version | 10.1.2-0ubuntu1 |
| Description | common utilities to mount and interact with a ceph storage cluster |
| Sub Section | admin |