checkgmail software package provides alternative Gmail Notifier for Linux via Atom feeds, 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 checkgmail
checkgmail is installed in your system.
Make ensure the checkgmail package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep checkgmail *
You will get with checkgmail package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
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| Package | checkgmail |
| Version | 1.13+svn43-4fakesync1 |
| Description | alternative Gmail Notifier for Linux via Atom feeds |
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