desktop-profiles software package provides framework for setting up desktop profiles, 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 desktop-profiles
desktop-profiles is installed in your system.
Make ensure the desktop-profiles package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep desktop-profiles *
You will get with desktop-profiles package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 10 yakkety yak |
| Section | Administration Utilities |
| Package | desktop-profiles |
| Version | 1.4.22 |
| Description | framework for setting up desktop profiles |
| Sub Section | admin |