checksecurity software package provides basic system security checks, 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 checksecurity
checksecurity is installed in your system.
Make ensure the checksecurity package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep checksecurity *
You will get with checksecurity package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Administration Utilities |
| Package | checksecurity |
| Version | 2.0.16+nmu1ubuntu1 |
| Description | basic system security checks |
| Sub Section | admin |