big-cursor software package provides larger mouse cursors for X, 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 big-cursor
big-cursor is installed in your system.
Make ensure the big-cursor package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep big-cursor *
You will get with big-cursor package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | X Window System software |
| Package | big-cursor |
| Version | 3.1 |
| Description | larger mouse cursors for X |
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