collectd software package provides statistics collection and monitoring daemon, 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 collectd
collectd is installed in your system.
Make ensure the collectd package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep collectd *
You will get with collectd package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Utilities |
| Package | collectd |
| Version | 5.5.2-1 |
| Description | statistics collection and monitoring daemon |
| Sub Section | Utils |