cligh software package provides Command-line interface to GitHub, 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 cligh
cligh is installed in your system.
Make ensure the cligh package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep cligh *
You will get with cligh package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Python |
| Package | cligh |
| Version | 0.3-1 |
| Description | Command-line interface to GitHub |
| Sub Section | python |