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