accountsservice software package provides query and manipulate user account information, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install accountsservice
accountsservice is installed in your system.
Make ensure the accountsservice package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep accountsservice *
You will get with accountsservice package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | GNOME |
| Package | accountsservice |
| Version | 0.6.42-0ubuntu1 |
| Description | query and manipulate user account information |
| Sub Section | GNOME |