avahi-utils software package provides Avahi browsing, publishing and discovery utilities, 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 avahi-utils
avahi-utils is installed in your system.
Make ensure the avahi-utils package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep avahi-utils *
You will get with avahi-utils package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Network |
| Package | avahi-utils |
| Version | 0.6.32-1ubuntu1 |
| Description | Avahi browsing, publishing and discovery utilities |
| Sub Section | Net |