createrepo software package provides tool to generate the metadata for a yum repository, 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 createrepo
createrepo is installed in your system.
Make ensure the createrepo package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep createrepo *
You will get with createrepo package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Administration Utilities |
| Package | createrepo |
| Version | 0.10.3-1 |
| Description | tool to generate the metadata for a yum repository |
| Sub Section | admin |