ceilometer-agent-central software package provides ceilometer central agent, 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 ceilometer-agent-central
ceilometer-agent-central is installed in your system.
Make ensure the ceilometer-agent-central package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep ceilometer-agent-central *
You will get with ceilometer-agent-central package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Python |
| Package | ceilometer-agent-central |
| Version | 1:7.0.0-0ubuntu2 |
| Description | ceilometer central agent |
| Sub Section | python |