daemontools software package provides a collection of tools for managing UNIX services, 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 daemontools
daemontools is installed in your system.
Make ensure the daemontools package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep daemontools *
You will get with daemontools package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Administration Utilities |
| Package | daemontools |
| Version | 1:0.76-6ubuntu1 |
| Description | a collection of tools for managing UNIX services |
| Sub Section | admin |