ceph-mds software package provides metadata server for the ceph distributed file system, 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 ceph-mds
ceph-mds is installed in your system.
Make ensure the ceph-mds package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep ceph-mds *
You will get with ceph-mds package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Administration Utilities |
| Package | ceph-mds |
| Version | 10.1.2-0ubuntu1 |
| Description | metadata server for the ceph distributed file system |
| Sub Section | admin |