cli-common-dev software package provides common files for building CLI packages, 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 cli-common-dev
cli-common-dev is installed in your system.
Make ensure the cli-common-dev package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep cli-common-dev *
You will get with cli-common-dev package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Interpreters |
| Package | cli-common-dev |
| Version | 0.9+nmu1 |
| Description | common files for building CLI packages |
| Sub Section | Interpreters |