aspell-fa software package provides Persian dictionary for GNU Aspell, 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 aspell-fa
aspell-fa is installed in your system.
Make ensure the aspell-fa package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep aspell-fa *
You will get with aspell-fa package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Text Processing |
| Package | aspell-fa |
| Version | 0.11-0-3 |
| Description | Persian dictionary for GNU Aspell |
| Sub Section | text |