cyrus-nntpd software package provides Cyrus mail system - NNTP support, 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 cyrus-nntpd
cyrus-nntpd is installed in your system.
Make ensure the cyrus-nntpd package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep cyrus-nntpd *
You will get with cyrus-nntpd package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | |
| Package | cyrus-nntpd |
| Version | 2.5.9-2 |
| Description | Cyrus mail system - NNTP support |
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