aspell-ta software package provides Tamil (ta) 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-ta
aspell-ta is installed in your system.
Make ensure the aspell-ta package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep aspell-ta *
You will get with aspell-ta package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Text Processing |
| Package | aspell-ta |
| Version | 20040424-1-1 |
| Description | Tamil (ta) dictionary for GNU aspell |
| Sub Section | text |