criu software package provides checkpoint and restore in userspace, 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 criu
criu is installed in your system.
Make ensure the criu package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep criu *
You will get with criu package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Administration Utilities |
| Package | criu |
| Version | 2.0-2ubuntu3 |
| Description | checkpoint and restore in userspace |
| Sub Section | admin |