boinc-client software package provides core client for the BOINC distributed computing infrastructure, 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 boinc-client
boinc-client is installed in your system.
Make ensure the boinc-client package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep boinc-client *
You will get with boinc-client package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Network |
| Package | boinc-client |
| Version | 7.6.33+dfsg-1 |
| Description | core client for the BOINC distributed computing infrastructure |
| Sub Section | Net |