dbar software package provides general purpose ASCII graphic percentage meter/progressbar, 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 dbar
dbar is installed in your system.
Make ensure the dbar package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep dbar *
You will get with dbar package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Text Processing |
| Package | dbar |
| Version | 0.0.20100524-3 |
| Description | general purpose ASCII graphic percentage meter/progressbar |
| Sub Section | text |